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==== <big>'''<u>Getting there</u>'''</big> ====
==== <big>'''<u>Getting there</u>'''</big> ====
<big>We encourage all attendees to arrive around 8:30 AM, thirty minutes prior to the start of the event at 9:00 AM, to ensure they have enough time to settle in and make the most of the day.</big>
'''<big>By Car</big>'''
'''<big>By Car</big>'''


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* More FDA shuttle info can be found [https://www.fda.gov/media/92208/download?attachment here]
* More FDA shuttle info can be found [https://www.fda.gov/media/92208/download?attachment here]


<big>Please go to the [https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/visitor-information/getting-fda FDA site] for more transportation options.</big>  
<big>Please go to the [https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/visitor-information/getting-fda FDA site] for more transportation options.</big>
 
=== <u>Accommodation</u> ===
<big>If you require accommodation during your stay, please refer to the following document for a list of hotels near the FDA White Oak Campus: [https://www.foundationforpn.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Hotels-by-the-FDA-White-Oak.pdf Hotels by the FDA White Oak Campus]. This resource provides information on nearby accommodations to ensure your comfort and convenience during the event.</big>


== <big>Abstract</big> ==
== <big>Abstract</big> ==
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=== <big><u>Organization Committee</u></big> ===
=== <big><u>Organization Committee</u></big> ===
<big>Jonathon Kenney (GWU/Chair); Raja Mazumder (GWU); Mark Walderhaug (FDA); Luis Santana-Quintero(FDA); Charles Hadley King (GWU); Omar Serang (DNAnexus); Sam Westreich (DNAnexus) Dennis A. Dean, II (Velsera);  Phil Webster (Velsera); Kostis Karagiannis (Moderna)</big>
<big>Jonathon Keeney (GWU/Chair); Raja Mazumder (GWU); Mark Walderhaug (FDA); Luis Santana-Quintero(FDA); Charles Hadley King (GWU); Omar Serang (DNAnexus); Sam Westreich (DNAnexus); Dennis A. Dean, II (Velsera);  Phil Webster (Velsera); Kostis Karagiannis (Moderna)</big>


== <big>Workshop Topics</big> ==
== <big>Workshop Topics</big> ==
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<big>'''Size''': poster sizes can be up to 4' tall x 6' wide.</big>
<big>'''Size''': poster sizes can be up to 4' tall x 6' wide.</big>


<big>'''Submission Portal''': click [https://docs.biocomputeobject.org/submit/ here].</big>   
<big>'''Submission Portal''': click [https://docs.biocomputeobject.org/submit/ here].</big>
== <big>Conference Webinar</big> ==
<big>''BioCompute Conference 2024 at FDA''</big>
 
<big>''Presented by the BioCompute team with plenary address by CBER Director Dr. Peter Marks''</big>
 
<big>'''Published May 10, 2024'''</big>
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3c9ZVT-Uw '''Watch Here''']
 
00:00 Intro - Jonathon Keeney, PhD
 
11:45 Vision and Future of Biocompute - Raja Mazumder, PhD, MS, MSC
 
28:48 FDA Alignment With The Vision of Biocompute - Peter W. Marks, MD, PhD
 
43:23 Biocompute Vision From an FDA-Industry Perspective - Vahan Simonyan, MD, PhD
 
1:00:26 A computational framework for end-to-end clinical omics analysis - Jun Luo, PhD
 
1:10:47 Applications of Biocompute Objects For Viral Metagenomics Analysis - Julia Maritz, PhD
 
1:21:23 Question Panel 1
 
1:42:14 Biocompute Objects and Workflows - Mark Walderhaug, PhD
 
1:59:40 Computational Reviews at CBER - Luis V Santanz-Quintero, PhD
 
2:12:23 High Throughput Sequencing Data Challenges in FDA Regulatory Review - Eric Donaldson, PhD
 
2:30:26 Question Panel 2:
 
2:43:43 AI and Data Science For Health and Research: Exploring NIH Strategies, Challenges, and Visions for the Future - Susan Gregurick, PhD
 
3:02:32 Biocompute Object Submissions to FDA - Virginia Hussong
 
3:15:17 Extending BCO Specification into a Generic Metamodel For Computable Data - Guangzhi Sun, PhD
 
3:37:17 Functioning Biocompute Objects As AI Agents - Jonas S Almeida, PhD
 
3:52:20 DNAnexus: Democratizing access to BCOs with the BCOnexus Platform Free Editor - Sam Westreich, PhD
 
4:06:09 Facilitating BCO Use From Standard to Best Practices: The Neoantigen Use Case - Dennis A. Dean, PhD
 
4:28:52 BioCompute Portal, BioCompute Database, and User Database: Why So Many? - Charles Hadley King, MS
 
4:50:00 BCO Provenance Models and FAIR Computational Workflows - Stain Soiland-Reyes, MSc & Meznah Aloqalaa, MS
 
5:10:51 Generating BCO’s For Nextflow Pipelines - Ben Sherman, PhD
 
05:36:32 Large Language Models - Konstantinos Krampis, PhD
 
05:51:10 Retrieval-Augmented Generation For BioCompute Object Creation - Sean Kim, MS
 
06:07:28 BioCompute Library Project - Sean Keeney  
 
06:11:54 Visualization For Published BCOs - Tianyi Wang, MS
 
06:16:16 BCOs to Unite Data and Workflow into Analysis - Patrick McNeely, MSc, PhD
 
06:19:20 Closing Remarks - Raja Mazumder, PhD, MS, MSc & Mark Walderhaug, PhD


== <big>Schedule</big> ==
== <big>Schedule</big> ==
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="17" |Morning
Session
!<big>Time</big>
!<big>Time</big>
!<big>Speaker</big>
!<big>Speaker</big>
!<big>Content</big>
!<big>Content</big>
|-
|-
!9:00am - 10:00am
!9:00 - 10:00AM
! colspan="2" |<big>Introduction and Future for BioCompute</big>
! colspan="2" |<big>Introduction and Future for BioCompute</big>
|-
|-
|9:00am - 9:10am
|9:00 - 9:15
|'''Jonathon Keeney'''
|'''Jonathon Keeney'''
<small>Research Assistant Professor, George Washington University</small>
<small>Research Assistant Professor, George Washington University</small>
|Introduction
|Welcome and Introduction
|-
|-
|9:10am - 9:25am
|9:15 - 9:30
|'''Raja Mazumder'''
|'''Raja Mazumder'''
<small>Professor, George Washington University</small>
<small>Professor, George Washington University</small>
|Vision and Future of BioCompute
|Vision and Future of BioCompute
|-
|-
|9:25am - 9:40am
|9:30 - 9:45
|'''Vahan Simonyan'''
<small>CSO, Embleema</small>
|BioCompute vision from an FDA-Industry perspective
|-
|9:25am - 10:00am
| '''Peter Marks'''
| '''Peter Marks'''
<small>Director, CBER, FDA</small>
<small>Director, CBER, FDA</small>
|Vision
|Plenary Address
|-
!9:45 - 10:00AM
! colspan="2" |''Break''
|-
|-
!10:00am - 11:00am
!10:00 - 10:55AM
! colspan="2" |<big>Need for BCO at FDA</big>
! colspan="2" |<big>Considerations for Adoption in Industry</big>
|-
|-
|10:00am - 10:20am
|10:00 - 10:15
|'''Mark Walderhaug'''
|'''Vahan Simonyan'''
<small>Associate Director for Risk Assessment, CBER, FDA</small>
<small>CSO, Embleema, DNA HIVE</small>
|BioCompute Objects and standards
|BioCompute Vision from an FDA-Industry Perspective
|-
|-
|10:20am - 10:35am
|10:15 - 10:30
|'''Luis Santana-Quintero'''
|'''Jun Luo'''
<small>HIVE lead, CBER, FDA</small>
<small>Data Scientist, Novo Nordisk</small>
|Computational Reviews at CBER
|A Computational Framework for end-to-end Clinical Omics Analysis: Single Cell Mechanism of action study in chronic diseases
|-
|-
|10:35am - 10:50am
|10:30 - 10:45
|'''Eric Donaldson'''
|'''Julia Maritz'''
<small>Clinical Virology Reviewer</small>
<small>Senior Scientist, Merck</small>
|Perspectives from a Reviewer: High Throughput Sequencing Data Challenges in FDA Regulatory Review
|Applications of BioCompute Objects for Viral Metagenomics Analysis
|-
|-
|10:50am - 11:00am
|10:45 - 10:55
| colspan="2" |''Discussion''
| colspan="2" |''Discussion''
|-
|-
!11:00am - 11:20am
!10:55 - 11:10AM
! colspan="2" |''Break and poster review''
! colspan="2" |''Break and poster review''
|-
|-
!11:20am - 12:15am
!11:10 - 12:05PM
! colspan="2" |<big>Considerations for Adoption in Industry</big>
! colspan="2" |<big>Need for BCO at FDA</big>
|-
|-
|11:20am - 11:35am
|11:10 - 11:25
| UNCONFIRMED
| '''Mark Walderhaug'''
|TBD
<small>Associate Director for Risk Assessment, CBER, FDA</small>
|BioCompute Objects and Workflows
|-
|-
|11:35am - 11:50am
|11:25 - 11:40
| '''Jun Luo'''
|'''Luis Santana-Quintero'''
<small>Data Scientist, Novo Nordisk</small>
<small>HIVE lead, CBER, FDA</small>
| A computational framework for end-to-end clinical omics analysis: Single cell mechanism of action study in chronic diseases
|Computational Reviews at CBER
|-
|-
|11:50am - 12:05pm
|11:40 - 11:55
|'''Jack Baker'''
| '''Eric Donaldson'''
<small>Scientist, Merck</small>
<small>Clinical Virology Reviewer</small>
|Considerations for adoption from industry
| Perspectives from a Reviewer: High Throughput Sequencing Data Challenges in FDA Regulatory Review
|-
|-
|12:05pm - 12:15pm
|11:55 - 12:05
| colspan="2" |''Discussion''
| colspan="2" |''Discussion''
|-
|-
!12:15pm - 1:15pm
!
!12:05 - 1:10PM
! colspan="2" |''Lunch & Poster Session''
! colspan="2" |''Lunch & Poster Session''
|-
|-
!1:15pm - 4:10pm
! rowspan="18" |Afternoon
! colspan="2" |<big>Progress Towards Usability</big>
Session
!1:10 - 4:30PM
! colspan="2" |<big>Technical, Administrative, and Usability Session</big>
|-
|-
|1:15pm - 1:30pm
|1:10 - 1:25
|'''Susan Gregurick'''
|'''Susan Gregurick'''
<small>Director of Data Science, NIH</small>
<small>Director of Data Science, NIH</small>
|AI for Health and Research: Exploring NIH’s Strategies, Challenges, and Vision for the Future
|AI for Health and Research: Exploring NIH’s Strategies, Challenges, and Vision for the Future
|-
|-
|1:30pm - 1:45pm
|1:25 - 1:40
|'''Elaine Thompson'''
|'''Virginia Hussong'''
<small>Vice President Bioinformatics, Embleema</small>
<small>Miscellaneous Administration and Program, FDA</small>
|BCO-CDISC: An emerging role for BioCompute: CDISC Standards for Cell and Gene Therapy Product (CGTP) Monitoring.
|Forthcoming Guidance for BCO Submission
|-
|-
|1:45pm - 2:00pm
|1:40 - 1:55
|'''Guangzhi Sun'''
|'''Guangzhi Sun'''
<small>Associate Researcher, CNIS</small>
<small>Associate Researcher, China National Institute of Standardization (CNIS), ISO</small>
|Extending BCO specification into a generic metamodel for computable data
|Extending BCO specification into a Generic Metamodel for Computable Data
|-
|-
!2:00pm - 2:15pm
!1:55 - 2:10PM
! colspan="2" |''Break and Poster review''
! colspan="2" |''Break and Poster review''
|-
|-
|2:15pm - 2:30pm
|2:10 - 2:25
|Regualtory Advisory Board representative
|'''Jonas Almeida'''
|Forthcoming Guidance for BCO Submission
<small>Director of Data Science, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics,  NCI</small>
|Functionalization of Biocompute Objects using Generative AI
|-
|2:25 - 2:40
|'''Sam Westreich'''
<small>Sr. Scientific Program Manager, DNAnexus</small>
|DNAnexus: Democratizing access to BCOs with the BCOnexus Platform-Free Editor
|-
|-
|2:30pm - 2:50pm
|2:40 - 3:00
|'''Dennis Dean'''
|'''Dennis Dean'''
<small>Director of Translational Sciences, Velsera</small>
<small>Director of Translational Sciences, Velsera</small>
|Facilitating BCO Use from Standard to Best Practices: The Neoantigen Workflow Use Case
|Facilitating BCO Use from Standard to Best Practices: The Neoantigen Workflow Use Case
|-
|-
|2:50pm - 3:05pm
|3:00 - 3:15
|'''Sam Westreich'''
|'''Hadley King'''
<small>Sr. Scientific Program Manager, DNAnexus</small>
<small>Research Scientist, HIVE Lab, George Washington University</small>
|DNAnexus: Democratizing access to BCOs with the BCOnexus Platform-Free Editor
|BioCompute Portal, BioCompute Database, and User Database: Why so many?
|-
|-
!3:05pm - 3:20pm
!3:15 - 3:30PM
! colspan="2" |''Break and Poster review''  
! colspan="2" |''Break and Poster review''  
|-
|-
|3:20pm - 3:35pm
|3:30 - 3:45
|'''Stian Soiland-Reyes and Meznah Aloqalaa'''
|'''Stian Soiland-Reyes and Meznah Aloqalaa'''
<small>Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester/Ph.D. Student</small>
<small>Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester/Ph.D. Student</small>
|BCO, provenance models (PRIMAD, RO-Crate) and FAIR Computational Workflows
|BCO, Provenance Models (PRIMAD, RO-Crate) and FAIR Computational Workflows
|-
|-
|3:35pm - 3:50pm
|3:45 - 4:00
|'''Ben Sherman'''
|'''Ben Sherman'''
<small>Developer, Seqera Labs</small>
<small>Developer, Seqera Labs</small>
|Generating BioCompute objects for Nextflow pipelines
|Generating BioCompute Objects for Nextflow Pipelines
|-
|-
|3:50pm - 4:05pm
|4:00 - 4:15
|'''Konstantinos Krampis'''
|'''Konstantinos Krampis'''
<small>Associate Professor of Biology and Computer Science, CUNY</small>
<small>Associate Professor of Biology and Computer Science, CUNY</small>
|BCO in AI: Leveraging Large Language Models (aka ChatGPT) for Biocompute Object Generation in Bioinformatics
|BCO in AI: Leveraging Large Language Models (aka ChatGPT) for Biocompute Object Generation in Bioinformatics
|-
|-
|4:05pm - 4:20pm
|4:15 - 4:30
|'''Sean Kim'''
|'''Sean Kim'''
<small>Bioinformatics Specialist, George Washington University</small>
<small>Bioinformatics Specialist, George Washington University</small>
|Enhanced BioCompute Object Creation through Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Scientific Papers
|Enhanced BioCompute Object Creation through Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Scientific Papers
|-
|-
!4:20pm - 4:30pm
!4:30 - 4:40PM
! colspan="2" |''Break and Poster review''
! colspan="2" |''Break and Poster review''
|-
|-
!4:30pm - 5:00pm
!4:40 - 5:00PM
! colspan="2" |<big>Lightning talk and closing</big>
! colspan="2" |<big>Lightning talk and closing</big>
|-
|-
|4:30pm - 4:45pm
|4:40 - 4:55
|Chosen speakers
|Chosen speakers
|Poster lightning talks
|Poster lightning talks
|-
|-
!4:45pm - 5:00pm
!4:55 - 5:00PM
! colspan="2" |Closing
! colspan="2" |Closing
''Mark Walderhaug and Raja Mazumder''
|}
|}


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|[[File:Susan K. Gregurick.jpg|none|thumb|245x245px]]<big><div style="text-align: center;">Susan K. Gregurick</div></big>
|[[File:Susan K. Gregurick.jpg|none|thumb|245x245px]]<big><div style="text-align: center;">Susan K. Gregurick</div></big>
|[[File:Mazumder, Raja.jpeg.jpg|none|thumb|245x245px]]<big><div style="text-align: center;">Raja Mazumder</div></big>
|[[File:Mazumder, Raja.jpeg.jpg|none|thumb|245x245px]]<big><div style="text-align: center;">Raja Mazumder</div></big>
|[[File:Vahan Simonyan.png|none|thumb|200x200px]]     <big><div style="text-align: center;">Vahan Simonyan</div></big>
|[[File:Jonas Almeida.png|center|thumb|241x241px]]<big><div style="text-align: center;">Jonas Almeida</div></big>
|[[File:Jun Luo.png|none|thumb|240x240px]]<big><div style="text-align: center;">Jun Luo</div></big>
|[[File:Jun Luo.png|none|thumb|240x240px]]<big><div style="text-align: center;">Jun Luo</div></big>
|-
|-
|[[File:Sam Westreich.jpg|thumb|204x204px|none]]        <big><div style="text-align: center;">[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-westreich/ Sam Westreich]</div></big>  
|[[File:Vahan Simonyan.png|none|thumb|204x204px]]      <big><div style="text-align: center;">Vahan Simonyan</div></big>
|[[File:Sam Westreich.jpg|thumb|204x204px|none]]        <big><div style="text-align: center;">[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-westreich/ Sam Westreich]</div></big>
|[[File:Konstantinos Krampis.jpg|thumb|none]]    <big><div style="text-align: center;">Konstantinos Krampis</div></big>
|[[File:Konstantinos Krampis.jpg|thumb|none]]    <big><div style="text-align: center;">Konstantinos Krampis</div></big>
|[[File:Ben Sherman.png|none|thumb|200x200px]]  <big><div style="text-align: center;">Ben Sherman</div></big>
|[[File:Image001.png|thumb|200x200px|center]]          <big><div style="text-align: center;">Eric Donaldson</div></big>
|[[File:Image001.png|thumb|200x200px|center]]          <big><div style="text-align: center;">Eric Donaldson</div></big>
|[[File:Dennis Dean.png|center|thumb|200x200px]]          <big><div style="text-align: center;">Dennis A. Dean, II</div></big>
|[[File:Dennis Dean.png|center|thumb|200x200px]]          <big><div style="text-align: center;">Dennis A. Dean, II</div></big>
|-
|-
|[[File:Jonathon Keeney.png|none|thumb|200x200px]]     <big><div style="text-align: center;">[https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathon-keeney/ Jonathon Keeney]</div></big>
|[[File:Virginia Hussong.jpg|none|thumb|200x200px]]<big><div style="text-align: center;">Virginia Hussong</div></big>
|[[File:Keeney Jonathon 5309 MOD.jpg|thumb|203x203px|center]]<big><div style="text-align: center;">[https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathon-keeney/ Jonathon Keeney]</div></big>
|[[File:Luis.jpg|center|thumb|200x200px]]        <big><div style="text-align: center;">Luis Santana-Quintero</div></big>
|[[File:Luis.jpg|center|thumb|200x200px]]        <big><div style="text-align: center;">Luis Santana-Quintero</div></big>
|[[File:Jack Baker.png|center|thumb|200x200px]]<big><div style="text-align: center;">Jack Baker</div></big>
|[[File:Ben Sherman.png|none|thumb|200x200px]]   <big><div style="text-align: center;">Ben Sherman</div></big>
|[[File:Sean Kim.png|none|thumb|222x222px]]<big><div style="text-align: center;">Sean Kim</div></big>
|[[File:Sean Kim.png|none|thumb|222x222px]]<big><div style="text-align: center;">Sean Kim</div></big>
|
|-
|[[File:Guangzhi Sun.jpg|thumb|254x254px|center]]<big><div style="text-align: center;">Guangzhi Sun</div></big>
|[[File:HadleyKing.png|alt=Headshot for Hadley King|center|thumb|200x200px]]<big><div style="text-align: center;">Hadley King</div></big>
|[[File:Soiland-Reyes.jpg|none|thumb|200x200px]]<big><div style="text-align: center;">Stian Soiland-Reyes</div></big>
|[[File:Mark Walderhaug.jpg|none|thumb|200x200px]]<big><div style="text-align: center;">Mark Walderhaug</div></big>
|[[File:Julia Maritz.jpg|none|thumb|204x204px]]<big><div style="text-align: center;">Julia Maritz</div></big>
|}
|}


== <big>Contact Us</big> ==
== <big>Use Case Collection Form</big>==
<big>Please take a moment to fill out our use case collection form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfS5E-cpPMvIdEHVqPiZnmcpsH5JetMsBAY2vnsemRWeDj5uw/viewform </big>
 
==<big>Contact Us</big>==
<big>For questions about registration or general inquiries about  BioCompute, please go to [https://docs.biocomputeobject.org/contact/ Contact Us] or refer to our [https://wiki.biocomputeobject.org/index.php?title=FAQs# FAQs]</big>
<big>For questions about registration or general inquiries about  BioCompute, please go to [https://docs.biocomputeobject.org/contact/ Contact Us] or refer to our [https://wiki.biocomputeobject.org/index.php?title=FAQs# FAQs]</big>

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2024 BioCompute Conference and Workshop

This workshop provides an opportunity to learn about interoperability between platforms that host BioCompute Objects (BCOs), the FDA’s "Portal" for reading, writing and sharing BCOs, real world applications including intended use in regulatory submissions, and potential implementations, including the use of AI/ML. This conference will have perspectives from both FDA and industry around the use of BioCompute in regulatory submissions, challenges for implementation, and tools designed to work with the standard. Join us for an in-depth discussion of BCO standards and an opportunity to view other projects during our poster session.

Event Registration: Eventbrite

Date & Time: May 10th, 2024, 9 AM - 5 PM

Location: Great Room, White Oak Campus, FDA center

Getting there

We encourage all attendees to arrive around 8:30 AM, thirty minutes prior to the start of the event at 9:00 AM, to ensure they have enough time to settle in and make the most of the day.

By Car

Enter "FDA Building 1" in Google Maps, then follow NW Loop Rd to the closest visitor parking, once reach the T-section turn right onto Michelson Rd to vehicle security screening before parking on the White Oak campus. FDA circulator shuttles are available between visitor parking and Building 1. Refer to the FDA website for the campus map.

By metro Public buses:

  • Ride On Bus Route 22 - stops at the Silver Spring (Red line) Metro station
  • BRT Flash Orange Route - stops at the Silver Spring (Red line) Metro station
  • Metro Bus C8 - stops at the White Flint (Red line), Glenmont (Red Line), and College Park (Green line) Metro stations
  • Metro Bus K6 - stops at the Fort Totten (Red, Green, and Yellow lines) Metro station
  • Metro Bus K9 - stops at the Fort Totten (Red, Green, and Yellow lines) Metro station

FDA shuttle to metro:

Please go to the FDA site for more transportation options.

Accommodation

If you require accommodation during your stay, please refer to the following document for a list of hotels near the FDA White Oak Campus: Hotels by the FDA White Oak Campus. This resource provides information on nearby accommodations to ensure your comfort and convenience during the event.

Abstract

Documenting computational workflows has historically been a challenge for researchers and reviewers. Often, there are no clear guidelines for describing these workflows, leading to ad hoc definitions and descriptions that are insufficient for comprehension and reproducibility. BioCompute, an abbreviation for the IEEE standard 2791-2020, offers a structured framework for precisely yet adaptable describing workflows. A BioCompute Object (BCO) represents a workflow that adheres to this standard. This standard breaks down a workflow into its core components, aligning them with established data standards and ontologies. BioCompute significantly aids in streamlining workflow data, managing complexity across multiple versions, and enhancing reproducibility.

As the field evolves, addressing regulatory concerns becomes paramount, necessitating a common language for all stakeholders. The BioCompute community, comprised of over 400 individuals, has crafted a framework that offers guidance without imposing undue burdens on sponsors or reviewers. To date, BCO has been embraced by three FDA centers, effectively reducing delays in regulatory submissions. An ongoing pilot project involving the BioCompute team, FDA, and industry sponsors aims to improve communication efficiency and fluidity during submission and review processes.

The BioCompute Portal, the central platform for creating and submitting BCOs, has seen significant improvements in the past year, including Google and ORCID integration and an enhanced user interface. Furthermore, a new Portal instance at the FDA, along with four tools for authoring BCOs directly from various platforms (BCOnexus, Seven Bridges APP, the HIVE, and Galaxy platforms), and expanded documentation, make it easier to create, share, edit, and publish BCOs online. In addition, the FDA can retrieve BCOs from the public BCODB upon request, and with APIs and authentication tokens, users can directly submit to FDA portal API endpoints and interact with BCOs and their implementations seamlessly. All of the most up-to-date information about BioCompute will be introduced at the workshop and followed by a roundtable discussion to further improve the applicability of BioCompute from the FDA point of view and industry-wise.

Organization Committee

Jonathon Keeney (GWU/Chair); Raja Mazumder (GWU); Mark Walderhaug (FDA); Luis Santana-Quintero(FDA); Charles Hadley King (GWU); Omar Serang (DNAnexus); Sam Westreich (DNAnexus); Dennis A. Dean, II (Velsera); Phil Webster (Velsera); Kostis Karagiannis (Moderna)

Workshop Topics

  • Updates and future for BioCompute
  • Need for BCO at FDA
  • Considerations for Adoption in Industry
  • Progress Towards Usability
  • BCODB and Portal's use at the FDA
  • BCO platform interoperability
  • Exemplar workflows and real-world applications
  • BCO-Nextflow
  • Potential AI/ML-related implementations
  • FAQ session & Roundtable discussion

Poster Session

Participants are encouraged to submit a poster abstract by April 15th, 11:59 PM (EDT). Posters should describe a computational pipeline or topic related to BioCompute. Up to 5 posters will have their workflows converted into a BCO by the BCO team and published in the BCO Portal, and will be offered a 5-minute lightning talk at the end of the conference. All posters must be printed before the workshop and set up at the start of the event.

Abstract: Any computational workflow of interest, or topic related to BCOs

Poster Content: Posters should highlight or describe a workflow (either in progress or one already in use) and the way it is used.

Size: poster sizes can be up to 4' tall x 6' wide.

Submission Portal: click here.

Conference Webinar

BioCompute Conference 2024 at FDA

Presented by the BioCompute team with plenary address by CBER Director Dr. Peter Marks

Published May 10, 2024

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00:00 Intro - Jonathon Keeney, PhD

11:45 Vision and Future of Biocompute - Raja Mazumder, PhD, MS, MSC

28:48 FDA Alignment With The Vision of Biocompute - Peter W. Marks, MD, PhD

43:23 Biocompute Vision From an FDA-Industry Perspective - Vahan Simonyan, MD, PhD

1:00:26 A computational framework for end-to-end clinical omics analysis - Jun Luo, PhD

1:10:47 Applications of Biocompute Objects For Viral Metagenomics Analysis - Julia Maritz, PhD

1:21:23 Question Panel 1

1:42:14 Biocompute Objects and Workflows - Mark Walderhaug, PhD

1:59:40 Computational Reviews at CBER - Luis V Santanz-Quintero, PhD

2:12:23 High Throughput Sequencing Data Challenges in FDA Regulatory Review - Eric Donaldson, PhD

2:30:26 Question Panel 2:

2:43:43 AI and Data Science For Health and Research: Exploring NIH Strategies, Challenges, and Visions for the Future - Susan Gregurick, PhD

3:02:32 Biocompute Object Submissions to FDA - Virginia Hussong

3:15:17 Extending BCO Specification into a Generic Metamodel For Computable Data - Guangzhi Sun, PhD

3:37:17 Functioning Biocompute Objects As AI Agents - Jonas S Almeida, PhD

3:52:20 DNAnexus: Democratizing access to BCOs with the BCOnexus Platform Free Editor - Sam Westreich, PhD

4:06:09 Facilitating BCO Use From Standard to Best Practices: The Neoantigen Use Case - Dennis A. Dean, PhD

4:28:52 BioCompute Portal, BioCompute Database, and User Database: Why So Many? - Charles Hadley King, MS

4:50:00 BCO Provenance Models and FAIR Computational Workflows - Stain Soiland-Reyes, MSc & Meznah Aloqalaa, MS

5:10:51 Generating BCO’s For Nextflow Pipelines - Ben Sherman, PhD

05:36:32 Large Language Models - Konstantinos Krampis, PhD

05:51:10 Retrieval-Augmented Generation For BioCompute Object Creation - Sean Kim, MS

06:07:28 BioCompute Library Project - Sean Keeney

06:11:54 Visualization For Published BCOs - Tianyi Wang, MS

06:16:16 BCOs to Unite Data and Workflow into Analysis - Patrick McNeely, MSc, PhD

06:19:20 Closing Remarks - Raja Mazumder, PhD, MS, MSc & Mark Walderhaug, PhD

Schedule

Morning

Session

Time Speaker Content
9:00 - 10:00AM Introduction and Future for BioCompute
9:00 - 9:15 Jonathon Keeney

Research Assistant Professor, George Washington University

Welcome and Introduction
9:15 - 9:30 Raja Mazumder

Professor, George Washington University

Vision and Future of BioCompute
9:30 - 9:45 Peter Marks

Director, CBER, FDA

Plenary Address
9:45 - 10:00AM Break
10:00 - 10:55AM Considerations for Adoption in Industry
10:00 - 10:15 Vahan Simonyan

CSO, Embleema, DNA HIVE

BioCompute Vision from an FDA-Industry Perspective
10:15 - 10:30 Jun Luo

Data Scientist, Novo Nordisk

A Computational Framework for end-to-end Clinical Omics Analysis: Single Cell Mechanism of action study in chronic diseases
10:30 - 10:45 Julia Maritz

Senior Scientist, Merck

Applications of BioCompute Objects for Viral Metagenomics Analysis
10:45 - 10:55 Discussion
10:55 - 11:10AM Break and poster review
11:10 - 12:05PM Need for BCO at FDA
11:10 - 11:25 Mark Walderhaug

Associate Director for Risk Assessment, CBER, FDA

BioCompute Objects and Workflows
11:25 - 11:40 Luis Santana-Quintero

HIVE lead, CBER, FDA

Computational Reviews at CBER
11:40 - 11:55 Eric Donaldson

Clinical Virology Reviewer

Perspectives from a Reviewer: High Throughput Sequencing Data Challenges in FDA Regulatory Review
11:55 - 12:05 Discussion
12:05 - 1:10PM Lunch & Poster Session
Afternoon

Session

1:10 - 4:30PM Technical, Administrative, and Usability Session
1:10 - 1:25 Susan Gregurick

Director of Data Science, NIH

AI for Health and Research: Exploring NIH’s Strategies, Challenges, and Vision for the Future
1:25 - 1:40 Virginia Hussong

Miscellaneous Administration and Program, FDA

Forthcoming Guidance for BCO Submission
1:40 - 1:55 Guangzhi Sun

Associate Researcher, China National Institute of Standardization (CNIS), ISO

Extending BCO specification into a Generic Metamodel for Computable Data
1:55 - 2:10PM Break and Poster review
2:10 - 2:25 Jonas Almeida

Director of Data Science, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI

Functionalization of Biocompute Objects using Generative AI
2:25 - 2:40 Sam Westreich

Sr. Scientific Program Manager, DNAnexus

DNAnexus: Democratizing access to BCOs with the BCOnexus Platform-Free Editor
2:40 - 3:00 Dennis Dean

Director of Translational Sciences, Velsera

Facilitating BCO Use from Standard to Best Practices: The Neoantigen Workflow Use Case
3:00 - 3:15 Hadley King

Research Scientist, HIVE Lab, George Washington University

BioCompute Portal, BioCompute Database, and User Database: Why so many?
3:15 - 3:30PM Break and Poster review
3:30 - 3:45 Stian Soiland-Reyes and Meznah Aloqalaa

Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester/Ph.D. Student

BCO, Provenance Models (PRIMAD, RO-Crate) and FAIR Computational Workflows
3:45 - 4:00 Ben Sherman

Developer, Seqera Labs

Generating BioCompute Objects for Nextflow Pipelines
4:00 - 4:15 Konstantinos Krampis

Associate Professor of Biology and Computer Science, CUNY

BCO in AI: Leveraging Large Language Models (aka ChatGPT) for Biocompute Object Generation in Bioinformatics
4:15 - 4:30 Sean Kim

Bioinformatics Specialist, George Washington University

Enhanced BioCompute Object Creation through Retrieval-Augmented Generation from Scientific Papers
4:30 - 4:40PM Break and Poster review
4:40 - 5:00PM Lightning talk and closing
4:40 - 4:55 Chosen speakers Poster lightning talks
4:55 - 5:00PM Closing

Mark Walderhaug and Raja Mazumder

Confirmed Presenters

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Peter Marks
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Susan K. Gregurick
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Raja Mazumder
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Jonas Almeida
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Jun Luo
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Vahan Simonyan
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Konstantinos Krampis
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Eric Donaldson
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Virginia Hussong
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Luis Santana-Quintero
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Ben Sherman
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Sean Kim
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Guangzhi Sun
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Hadley King
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Stian Soiland-Reyes
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Mark Walderhaug
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Julia Maritz

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