At the end of January I travelled to the States to speak at and attend the first O’ReillyBioinformatics Technology Conference [14]. It was a large, well-organized and diversemeeting with an interesting history. Although the meeting was not a typical academic conference,its style will, I am sure, become more typical of meetings in both biological andcomputational sciences.Speakers at the event included prominent bioinformatics researchers such as Ewan Birney,Terry Gaasterland and Lincoln Stein; authors and leaders in the open source programmingcommunity like Damian Conway and Nat Torkington; and representatives from severalpublishing companies including the Nature Publishing Group, Current Science Group andthe President of O’Reilly himself, Tim O’Reilly. There were presentations, tutorials,debates, quizzes and even a ‘jam session’ for musical bioinformaticists.
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