Arvados

h1. Arvados Transparent Informatics Summit - Fall 2013

The Fall 2013 Arvados Transparent Informatics Summit will take place in Boston on Tuesday, October 22nd at 1pm. Registration is *free* at [URL].

h2. What is the Arvados Transparent Informatics Summit?

As genomic data grows, the biomedical informatics community needs open source and open data resources more than ever. These Transparent Informatics resources provide the basis for open and proprietary genomics pipelines, tools, and services.

The Arvados Transparent Informatics Summit will bring together leaders who create and leverage Transparent Informatics initiatives for the benefit of the biomedical community.

Join us on October 22nd to hear about the latest in Transparent Informatics, learn about the Arvados Foundation, and help design the future of biomedical informatics! 

h2. Logistics

* When: Tuesday, October 22nd at 1pm

* Where: The Summit will take place in the Innovation District in Boston, close to the Boston Convention Center.

For participants staying near the Boston Convention Center, we will provide free pedicab rides to the Summit.

h2. Agenda

* *KEYNOTE*: Alexander Wait Zaranek: Chief Scientific Officer, Clinical Future; Director of Infomatics, Harvard Personal Genome Project

* Presentation of Keep Project

* Working session to gather community input on Keep

* Presentation of Crunch Project

* Working session to gather community input on Crunch

* Presentation of Lightning Project

* Working session to gather community input on Lightning

* Pipelines and Applications panel

h2. What is Transparent Informatics?

As increasingly large and complex datasets are used to deliver routine clinical care and do biomedical research, there is a need for well-integrated systems of software and data that can be used by everyone.

*Software* can be a "transparent informatics resource" if it provides downloadable source code that is made publicly available under the AGPLv3 / GPLv2 (or any later version) or a compatible license such as Apache 2.0.

*Integrated Human Datasets* (i.e. sequencing, health, and other biomedical data) can be "transparent informatics resources" if they are in the public domain via the Creative Commons CC0 copyright waiver or an equivalent legal construct; other information (e.g. wikis, scientific articles) available under CC-BY-SA or a compatible license such as CC-BY or CC0.

h2. What is the Arvados Foundation?

The Arvados Foundation is dedicated to enabling precision medicine through transparent informatics. Learn more about the foundation at http://arvados.org.

h2. How to register

Register for the Fall 2013 Arvados Transparent Informatics Summit for *free* at [URL].