The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) EU-CodeFest will be held in Parco Tecnologico Padano (PTP) Lodi, Italy on the 19^th – 20^th of July.

The CodeFest is a small focused event under the auspices of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and is a sister event of BOSC2012 being held in California USA this year.

Three main topics will be worked on during the CodeFest:

• NGS and high performance parsers for OpenBio projects.
• RDF and semantic web for bioinformatics.
• Bioinformatics pipelines definition, execution and distribution.

 

The number of places is limited to 30 participants at maximum, on a first come, first serve basis. Undergraduate and PhD students are welcome to participate.

The cost of the event is EUR 100 per person, which includes also lunches, coffee breaks and the social dinner on the 19^th of July.

Only for students, we can sponsor a limited number of attendees that will not pay for the registration fee. Those students, willing to participate for free to the event, will be asked to submit their qualifications and experience in software development. The organizing committee will review students’ applications before final acceptance.

Talks and abstracts may be presented during the CodeFest in sessions of 10 minutes plus questions. Coding activities will continue during the talks.

 

The City of Lodi is very close to Milano and has good hotel facilities. The connections by air are excellent, via Milano Malpensa, Milano Linate and Bergamo Orio Al Serio airports.

 

Please register soon using the form at the bottom of the page, places may run out quickly.

 

 

Accomodation

PTP has an agreement with two hotels in Lodi, Concorde and Europa. See websites below for further info. Both Hotels are 3 stars, very close to the railway station in the city centre. A shuttle bus connects the train station with PTP (LINE bus number 4, direction Università).

 

• Hotel CONCORDE

Lodi Centro - P.le Stazione 2 - 26900 Lodi

tel: +39 - 0371 421322

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• Hotel EUROPA

Viale Pavia 5 - 26900 Lodi

tel: +39 - 0371 5215 |

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(shuttle service to/from Parco Tecnologico Padano available upon request)

 

• Hotel NAPOLEON

Via Garibaldi 34 - 
26838 Tavazzano (Lodi)

tel: +39 - 0371 760824

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(shuttle service to/from Parco Tecnologico Padano available upon request)

 

• UNA Hotel Lodi

S.S. Emilia, Localita' S.Grato - 26900 Lodi

tel: +39 0371 6201

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Travel Info

There are three airports near Milan:

• from Milan LINATE to Lodi, it will take about 30 minutes by car;
• from Milan MALPENSA to Lodi, it will take about 1 hour and a half by car;
• from ORIO AL SERIO (Bergamo) to Lodi, it will take about 1 hour by car.

All the airports are connected by bus with Milan Centrale railway station (bus timetables available online). From Malpensa Airport a train connection is available as well. Train connection from Milano Centrale to Lodi requires 30 minutes. Taxis form Linate to Lodi will cost around 80€.

 

Useful Links

• Ferrovie dello Stato (National train service)
• Malpensa Express (Train connections Malpensa-Milan)
• Milan Airports Website
• Orio Shuttle (Bus connections)

 

Pre-Registration

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