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Sean’s Cambridge Top Five

Where to go when in Cambridge, MA? (1) Visit the Entrepreneur Walk of Fame in Kendall Square: the plaza outside the Marriott hotel has tiles honoring Thomas Edison, Hewlett-Packard Co-founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard, Genentech Cofounder Bob Swanson, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Lotus Development neighborhood Kapor. (2) When you arrive at the Broad, grab a screenshot of your WiFi neighbourhood and share with your friends: you’re in one of the world’s greatest technology hubs! (3) A stone’s throw from the Broad is the main office of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and just a few blocks away is the main office of Cell Press, both are worth the visit. (5) A favorite local restaurant chain is called Legal Seafoods; one is located a block away from Broad; another is in Boston Logan airport. On departure day, get to the airport early so you can get in a last lobster or Boston clam chowder before flying home.

VIZBI 2018 session on visualizing DNA data

The DNA session at VIZBI 2018 will be chaired by Christian Stolte (New York Genome Center). In this session, Aaron Wong (Flatiron Institute, New York) will speak about visualization approaches to help understand genome function, Marcin Imielinski (New York Genome Center) will discuss how visualization is being used to explore the altered structure of cancer genomes, and Nils Gehlenborg (Harvard Medical School) will highlight advances in the visual exploration of 3D genome data.