WORKSHOP: Graph Databases in Life Sciences

When: Monday, 12th of November, 2012

Where: Congrescentrum Het Pand, Onderbergen 1, 9000 Gent

What: a specific workshop to enable a better functional and technical understanding of what Graph Databases like Neo4j can do for BioTech organisations

Audience: technical architects, technical consultants, project managers, and technically interested business owners

Agenda:

8.30-9.00am Registration

9.00-9.15am Introduction and welcome Lennart Martens

9.15-9.45am GraphDB overview, Michael Hunger, Neo Technology Community team

9.45-10.15am Use case 1 presentation: metaproteomics Lennart Martens & team

10.15-10.45am break

10.45-11.15am Neo4j APIs: how to use a graph database, Michael Hunger, Neo Technology Community team

11.15am-12.00am Bio4j presentation by Pablo Pareja, Era7

12.00am-1.00pm LUNCH

1.00-1.30pm Biograph.be presentation Anthony Liekens, University of Antwerp

1.30-2.00pm The power of graphs to analyze biological data. Davy Suvee, Janssen Pharmaceutica

2.00-3.00pm Workshop phase 1

Reactome integration

• task 1: initiate neo4reactome
• task 2: create DAO
• task 3: Import reactome into graphdb Lennart Martens & team, Neo4j community team

3.00-3.15pm Coffee break

3.15-4.30pm Workshop phase 2: Reactome analysis

• task 4: paths between two compounds
• task 5: cypher playground Lennart Martens & team, Neo4j community team

4.30-5.00pm USER Questions, discussion, closing remarks Moderated

5.00-6.00pm Reception