Latin American Bioconductor (LAb) Foundation

Latin American Bioconductor (LAb) Foundation is rated 3 out of 5 in the category biotechnology. Read and write reviews about Latin American Bioconductor (LAb) Foundation. Our group aims to promote and provide visibility of Bioconductor to the broader Latin American scientific community. Supporting the future scientists! Mission To promote collaboration between Latin American research community with the broader Bioconductor community by encouraging greater use of the Bioconductor open source software packages for data analysis. Description We are excited to share with you a new scientific initiative we created to represent and expand Bioconductor’s community resources (bioconductor.org) to the scientific research community here in Latin America. Our new non-profit foundation is called LAb (Latin American Bioconductor) and on August 25, 2014 at 7pm we officially inaugurated the foundation. We have several key objectives and goals to be achieved by our new formal organization. *Partner with key research institutions across Latin America through shared grant proposals. *Sponsor and promote focused activities to enhance and train molecular biologists the art of bioinformatics. *Create a Latin American scientific forum (online) for proper discussions and advancements of novel bioinformatic tools. *Provide research and training opportunities with laboratory partners throughout Latin America for students and post-docs interested in genomics and epigenomics research. We expect the goals for this new foundation will be achieved through organized workshops, courses and scientific meetings.