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Palmerston North Bioinformatics Meeting

The Palmerston North Bioinformatics Meeting is a monthly gathering of people interested in bioinformatic and computational science to discuss the practice and profession of these kinds of science. It is an informal forum organised and sponsored by The Elshire Group for sharing ideas and helping each other learn. Sometimes it is like a journal club. Other times it is like a practical lab meeting where one presents a particularly sticky problem to solve. It has even been a research collective.

It is held on the 4th Friday of every month (some exceptions apply) from 3 to 5 PM. Participants come from AgResearch, Custom Science, Dragonfly Data Science, Environmental Science and Research, Plant and Food Research, Malaghan Institute, Massey University, Institute for Environmental Science & Research, and the Ministry for Primary Industries.

Anyone with an interest in bioinformatics science and an inclination for clear, honest, and kind communication about the practice and profession of computational research can attend. We welcome new participants interested in bioinformatics regardless of experience level.There are no dues or fees to be part of the meeting. We encourage active participation!

View our meeting programmes below.

Others have asked how we run our monthly meetings. We describe what we do and how we do it on this page.

Palmy Bioinfo Meeting List

Keep up to date on meeting announcements and other related information from the Palmy Bioinfo Meeting Group.

Meeting Programmes

Meeting 98 — 22nd November 2024

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Bruce Weir (Independent) “Estimation of inbreeding coefficients.”
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 97 — 25th October 2024

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Eliana Pallares (Massey) “Diversity of the Major Histocompatibility Complex and Mating Preferences in North Island Brown Kiwi”
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 96 — 27th September 2024

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Joep de Ligt “Getting whole genome sequencing into the cancer clinic. Struggles and successes in the Netherlands.”
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Annual Pot Luck Dinner (6pm)

Meeting 95 — 23rd August 2024

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Mary Morgan-Richards (Massey) “Why study rat gene flow in green corridors?”
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 94 — 26th July 2024

Meeting 93 — 28th June 2024

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Ruy Jauregui (MPI) “A week in the work of the Biosecurity genomics team.”
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 92 — 24th May 2024

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Hayden Jones (Massey University) “Nanopore sequencing and hybrid speciation in sun orchids”
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 91 — 25th April 2024

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Nimeshika Pattabiraman (Massey University) “High-resolution genetic structure of native and invasive populations of brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula) using GBS.”
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 90 — 22nd March 2024

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Discussion about online options
  • Presenter
    • Gillian Gibb (Massey University) “Evidence for avian mitochondrial recombination: widespread hidden mitochondrial gene duplications reveal extensive convergent evolution in parrots”
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 89 — 23rd February 2024

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Peter Lockhart (Massey University) “Using PacBIO and ONT sequencing to characterize alleles for sugar daddy genes in white clover.”
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 88 — 24th November 2023

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • James Miller (Regional Commercial Lead ANZ at Pacific Biosciences) “PacBio sequencing: the long and the short for genomes, pangenomes, and microbiomes.”
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 87 — 27th October 2023

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Davide Fraccascia (Massey) “Kiwifruit pectin metabolism in Faecalibacterium”
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 86 — 25th August 2023

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Matthieu Vignes(Massey) Analysis of IR spectrum data on horses that were subjected to a knee chip mimicking osteoarthritis.
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 85 — 28th July 2023

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Joep de Ligt (ESR) Reflections on the state of genomics.
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 84 — 30th June 2023

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • General discussion about GFANZ, Te Ara Paerangi, and the state of the tertiary education sector.
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 83 — 28th April 2023

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Michelle Smit (Massey) Towards a Fitbit for cats: Identifying behaviours of domestic cats (Felis catus) using accelerometers and machine learning.
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 82 — 24th March 2023

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Valter Almeida (Massey) Genetic diversity of the gut microbiome and bacteria from humans, gorillas and livestock living in a geographic interface with high risks of zoonotic emerging diseases
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 81 — 27th January 2023

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Rob Elshire (The Elshire Group Ltd.) Discussion about the development of a reproducible cloud based molecular ecology workflow..
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 80 — 25th November 2022

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Richard Winkworth (Massey / Ampersand Technologies) What’s changed since we last spoke? Update on diagnostic testing and mitochondrial genome research – as well as a glimpse into some new results on his kauri dieback research.
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 79 — 28th October 2022

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Peter Lockhart (Massey) Can we solve some of the worlds wicked problems from our own backyard?
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 78 — 23rd September 2022

  • Annual Pot Luck Dinner (7th Anniversary of the Meeting)

Meeting 77 — 26th August 2022

  • A visit with Trish wherein she saves the meeting.

Meeting 76 — 22nd July 2022

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Patrick Biggs (Massey) The pathogenomics of Campylobacter: enhanced by dynamic visualisations.
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 75 — 17th June 2022

Meeting 74 — 27th May 2022

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Brett Calcott (Dragonfly Data Science) Dealing with Ten Million COVID Sequences
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 73 — 22nd April 2022

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Joep de Ligt & Zoe Yang (ESR) Pangenome graphs, towards a reference freer future
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 72 — 25th March 2022

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Karaitiana Taiuru (Indigenous Genomics Institute)– Applying Tikanga Māori and Te Tiriti principles in the lab to recognise and practice Māori Data Sovereignty of biological samples
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 71 — 25th February 2022

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Mathieu Vignes (Massey) — Reconstruction biological systems with missing components
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 70 — 28th January 2022

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Mathieu Quenu (Massey) — Chromosome evolution dynamics in the grass endophyte fungi Epichloe
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 69 — 26th November 2021

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Anne Wyllie (Yale) speaking about her work on saliva tests for COVID-19.
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 68 — 22nd October 2021

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Roger Moraga (Tea Break Bioinformatics) an informal talk about the work he has been doing with Dragonfly Data Science on the COVID-19 related portion of GISAID.
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 67 — 24th September 2021

  • Annual Pot Luck Dinner

Meeting 66 — 27th August 2021

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Ruy Jauregui (AgR) — The woes and glories of the Coconut.
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 65 — 23rd July 2021

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Gillian Gibb (Massey) — Puzzling psittaciform permutations: the evolution of parrot mitochondrial genomes, and why we should care about it.
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 64 — 25th June 2021

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Richard Winkworth (Massey) — The Kauri Dieback pathogen – evolution to diagnostics
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 63 — 28th May 2021

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Davide Fraccascia (Massey/AgR) — Prolific faecal friends: pontification of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii’s phylogenetic (profilofile)
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 62 — 23rd April 2021

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Sofie Pearson (Massey) — Local adaptation in white clover associated with climate variation.
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 61 — 26th March 2021

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Nim Pattabiraman (Massey) — Landscape Genetics of Brushtail Possums in New Zealand
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 60 — 26th February 2021

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Lisa Warbrick — Current work on the Indigenous Genomics Institute
    • Rob Elshire — GFANZ Public Bioinformatics Platform Demonstration Video
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 59 — 22nd January 2021

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Rob Elshire — GFANZ Public Bioinformatics Platform Update — Kubernetes and Argo
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 58 — 27th November 2020

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Mingshu Cao (AGR) — “Computational Metabolomics — the missing dimension in Bioinformatics”
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 57 — 23rd October 2020

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Joep de Ligt (ESR) — “Never Have So Many People Obsessed Over So Few Mutations.”
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 56 — 25th September 2020

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Roger Moraga (Tea Break Bioinformatics) — “A Step Too Far: Illumina 2-Colour Chemistry Challenges”
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 55 — 28th August 2020

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • John Henry (Massey) — “Harnessing the transcriptome to detect hybridisation in alpine buttercups.”
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 54 — 24th July 2020

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Gillian Gibb & Julien Gaspar (Massey) –Kmers 101 and bird genome assembly
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 53 — 26th June 2020

  • In person if we are at alert level 1. Otherwise video conference.
  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Monika Karmin (Massey) — “Human paternal lineages of Island South East Asia, population history from Y chromosomal sequences.”
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 52 — 22nd May 2020

Meeting 51 — 24th April 2020

  • Moved to Video Conference rather than in person.
  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Emily Koot (PFR) — “Genome-wide patterns of genetic differentiation and demographic history in mānuka (Leptospermum scoparium) grown on indigenous Māori land.”
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Cancelled — 27th March 2020

  • COVID-19 Level 4 Lockdown in place.

Meeting 50 — 28th February 2020

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • David Chagne (PFR) — “Genome informed selection and gene editing in a Māori context” & “Sequence Database for Taonga Species“
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 49 — 24th January 2020

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Matthieu Vignes & Patrick Biggs (Massey) — “Teaching Statistical Genetics at Massey: what’s the situation and how is the future like? More importantly, what is ‘needed out there’: statisticians aware of genetics concepts/issues and adequate techniques, computational biologists, what else?”
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 48 — 22nd November 2019

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Giulia Trauzzi (Vic) — “Paua SNP development for monitoring recovery of paua populations affected by the Kaikoura earthquake “
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 47 — 25th October 2019

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Ange Hura and Malin Undin (Massey) — “Whakapapa of Brown kiwi Part one, GBS data on the way, what do we do now?”
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 46 — 27th September 2019

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Patrick Biggs (Massey) — Third in a series of discussions about creating an undergraduate bioinformatics curriculum.
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.
  • Annual pot luck dinner — Marking the start of year 5.

Meeting 45 — 23rd August 2019

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Rob Elshire (TEG) — Update on Cloud Computing Bioinformatics Project (Tool Repository Here)
    • Murray Cox & Patrick Biggs (Massey) — Second in a series of discussions about creating an undergraduate bioinformatics curriculum.
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 44 — 26th July 2019

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Siouxsie Wiles (University of Auckland) — Shedding light on antibiotic resistance and the evolution of superbugs – AKA help, we’re drowning in data!
    • Murray Cox & Patrick Biggs (Massey) — Second in a series of discussions about creating an undergraduate bioinformatics curriculum. Postponed until next month!
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 43 — 28th June 2019

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Peter Lockhart (Massey) — Investigating adaptive diversification in the NZ alpine buttercups
    • Murray Cox & Patrick Biggs (Massey) — First in a series of discussions about creating an undergraduate bioinformatics curriculum.
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 42 — 24th May 2019

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Olivia Angelin-Bonnet (Massey) — Simulating gene expression profiles with the R package sismonr (a package she wrote)
    • Interactive demonstration of sismonr. Everyone can try it:
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Special Workshop: Bioinformatics Cloud Computing Phase 1 — 18th April 2019

  1. Building blocks of cloud computing

    1. Hardware

      1. Number of processors
      2. Amount of RAM
      3. Amount / type of storage
      4. Network

    2. Software

      1. Operating system
      2. Software you need

    3. Data

      1. Storage
      2. Transfer

  2. Using the cloud

    1. SSH

      1. key pair
      2. logging in
    2.  Installing software
      1. apt
      2. compiling
    3. Getting some data
    4. Doing a basic analysis

Meeting 41 — 22nd March 2019

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Mingshu Cao (AgR) — Genotyping-by-Sequencing based Cytoplasmic Markers Underpin Population Structural Variation of Perennial Ryegrass (see also: https://github.com/AgResearch/cpmt )
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 40 — 22nd February 2019

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Roger Moraga (TBB) — PAG Conference Highlights
    • Rob Elshire (TEG) — Introduction to Cloud Computing
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 39 — 25th January 2019

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Rose Collis (AgR) — PhD research plan: Metagenomic analysis to identify antimicrobial resistance determinants in NZ dairy farm environments.
    • Roger Moraga (TBB) — PAG Conference Highlights
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 38 — 23rd November 2018

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Rob Elshire (TEG) — GFANZ Cloud Computing Project
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 37 — 26th October 2018

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Shanthi Parkar (PFR) — Effect of curcumin on human gut microbiota.
    • Laura Payling (Riddet Institute) — PhD Research Plan: How does fibre structure effect microbiota functionality
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 36 — 28th September 2018

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • GFANZ & Travel Update (Rob)
  • Blast parameter issue discussion
  • Presenter
    • Richard Winkworth (Massey) — DNA tests in a tea cup.
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 35 — 24th August 2018

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Our Third Anniversary!
  • Presenter
    • Richard Fong (Massey) — The impact of genomics on clinical microbiology and public health practice
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 34 — 27th July 2018

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenter
    • Gillian Gibb (Massey) — Why fly when you can walk? Comparing genomes of flying and
      flightless birds
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 33 — 22nd June 2018

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Shannon Ormond (Massey) — Searching for human disease-causative genetic variants using whole exome sequencing
    • Roger Moraga (Tea Break Bioinformatics) — What you can do with 1 lane of Illumina Sequencing.
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 32 — 25th May 2018

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Sean Bisset (Massey) — Insights into an antimicrobial mode of action using transcriptomics.
    • David Winter (Massey) — Marsden Grant Application Discussion
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 31 — 27th April 2018

Meeting 30 — 23rd March 2018

Meeting 29 — 23rd February 2018

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Jibran Tahir (PFR) — 3D genome assembly of Kiwifruit
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 28 — 26th January 2018

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Nicole Ferguson (CE REANNZ) — REANNZ
    • Question for the group: (How?) Does the differential alignment of different sample files affect SNP calling. Compare TASSEL collapsing to unique reads before alignment with other methods.
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 27 — 24th November 2017

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    •  Simon Zhang (Custom Science) — DNA Sequencing Technologies
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 26 — 27th October 2017 

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    •  Full Group — MapNet Workshop Preparations
    • Technical Issues
    • Anything else
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 25 — 22nd September 2017

  •  Opening discussion and general catch up
  •  Welcome for new members
  •  Presenters
    •  GFANZ
      • GFANZ / GA Collaboration Discussion Report
      • GFANZ Constitutional Draft Objectives
    • Full Group — MapNet Workshop Preparations
      • Any changes / suggestions
      • Talk outlines / references needed?
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.
  • 2nd Birthday Potluck Dinner

 Meeting 24 — 25th August 2017 

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Full Group —  MapNet Workshop Preparations
      • Any changes / suggestions
      • Talk outlines / references needed?
      • Recording the work for future use.
    • Finlay Thompson (Dragonfly Data Science) — Discussion about reproducibility
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 23 — 29th July 2017

Meeting 22 — 23rd June 2017

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 21 — 19th May 2017

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presentation & Discussion
    • Bruno Lago (Catalyst IT) — Software testing and how you can ensure your code is producing the right results.
    • Everyone — What would a good workshop on ‘How do we know that our software is doing what we expect it to do?’ in the bioinformatics context (and  MapNet) look like?
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 20 — 28th April 2017

Meeting 19 — 24th March 2017

Meeting 18 — 24th February 2017

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Data Science Workshop Announcement
  • Presenters
    • Rob Elshire TEG — Advanced Genomics Research Platform Update
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 17 — 27th January 2017

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Moment for Lucy
  • Presenters
    • Helge Dzierzon PFR — NextFlow
    • Rob Elshire TEG — BBS @ PAG & AGP proposal overview
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 16 — 31st December 2016

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters (everyone)
    • Drinks and nibbles.
    • Swimming
    • BBQ
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 15 — 25th November 2016

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • David Winter Massey — Recent work
    • Helge Dzierzon PFR — NextFlow postponed.
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 14 — 28th October 2016

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Alison Stringer MFE — Open Data in NZ
    • Helge Dzierzon PFR — NextFlow postponed
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 13 — 23rd September 2016

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
    • Matthieu Vignes Massey — Machine Learning
    • Tatiana Lomasko — Centre for Space Science and Technology
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.
  • Dish to pass in celebration of our first anniversary.

Meeting 12 — 26th August 2016

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Reflections on the Open Source // Open Society Conference (Rob)
  • Presenters
    • Robyn Johnston TEG — laser microdissection derived RNA seq data to look at pattern formation in maize leaf development
    • Rob Elshire TEG — Kāki Genomics: approaches, code and outcomes.
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.
  • Ideas about future meetings.

Meeting 11 — 29th July 2016

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Pressing Events Discussion
    • AGR / NZGL GBS Service
    • GPSBE GBS Pipeline Code Release & Removal
    • Elshire offer of Open Source Assistance to GPSBE Programme
    • Implications of above for BBS collective
    • BBS Collective Next Steps
  • Presenters
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 10 — 24th June 2016

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Welcome for new members
  • Presenters
  • Tips, tricks, and new tools.

Meeting 9 — 27th May 2016

Meeting 8 — 29th April 2016

Meeting 7 — 18th March 2016

Meeting 6 — 19th February 2016

  • Opening discussion and general catch up
  • Roger Moraga (AGR) —
  • Patrick Bigs (Massey) — Cardashian Effect

Meeting 5 — 15th January 2016

Meeting 4 — 10th December 2015

Meeting 3 — 9th November 2015

  • Mauro GBS adapter set optimisation.
  • GitHub work.
    • Get started with editing files and pull requests.
    • Populate the appropriate sub projects with people, skills and interests

Meeting 2 — October 2015

  • Agenda lost in the mists of time.

Meeting 1 — September 2015

  • A preliminary get together to gauge interest and direction.