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 bioin