Canberra reproducibility talk

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Title: Openness and reproducibility in computational science: tools,
approaches, and thought patterns.

Oct 17, NICTA, Canberra.

Abstract:

Computational reproducibility should be relatively straightforward to achieve
at the time of publication, but experience has shown that most research
groups struggle with it.  I will discuss the increasingly rich (and
unfortunately) complex ecosystem of tools in this area, and show how we
are mixing open science approaches with fairly simple tools to drive
replication and encourage reuse/remixing of our research software.

Bio:

While Titus has many diverse research interests, a goal of his lab is to
combine computation with experiment in order to improve our understanding of
gene function. The development and extension of data analysis tools and
toolkits is also an increasingly large interest of his lab. His group works
across developmental biology, molecular biology, bioinformatics, metagenomics
and next-generation sequencing. Titus has been an advocate of open-source
software and open science for decades, and he is committed to using novel
computer science tools to explore large genomic sequencing data sets. Titus
holds a PhD from the California Institute of Technology, and he will be moving
to UC Davis in January 2015, where he will lead the Laboratory of Data
Intensive Biology.