BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:icalendar-ruby
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260716T202212Z
UID:51920c7b-af7c-4393-a65d-9d3942b93f2d
DTSTART:20170912T090000Z
DTEND:20170912T210000Z
DESCRIPTION:The ELIXIR EXCELERATE Framework focuses on key aspects of moder
 n research by bringing together method and infrastructure developers as we
 ll as researchers who aim to provide the scientific community with novel 
 scientific tools\, and cutting edge research results at the same time. New
  developments are generally benchmarked during development\, with a certai
 n composition of data and methods to benchmark against.\n\nInternal benchm
 arks often suffer from an incompleteness concerning both the test data and
  competing methods. Independent and community-driven blind benchmarks are 
 addressing these issues and have been shown to be crucial for objectively 
 assessing scientific methods in various communities\, including substantia
 l commitment from industry.  \n\nCASP is the prime example of community-d
 riven benchmarking activities\, with bi-annual editions from 1994. Since t
 hen\, many other communities have come together to design and run their ow
 n benchmarking activities e.g. CAFA and Quest for Orthologs.\n\nThe main b
 enefit of recurring independent assessments is the task composition\, whic
 h is varied from what was initially used to develop the methods. Since the
  tasks evolve over time\, new aspects become crucial to be evaluated\, ref
 lecting current developments in the community. By being able to compare va
 rious methods on the same data set at the same point in time\, new methods
  can prove their superiority in a much more transparent way as past indivi
 dual benchmarks inherently suffer from the temporal focus on the methods a
 vailable at that particular time.\n\nThis workshop integrates experiences 
 from various community-driven benchmarking efforts\, illustrating key comm
 on elements. More importantly\, these examples illustrate how benchmarking
  activities bring together to their members and foster new interactions an
 d developments.\n\nThe program comprises two main parts: (1) speakers fro
 m diverse communities reporting on successful recurring benchmarking imple
 mentations and (2) plenary discussions to identify common approaches\, res
 ulting in refined guidelines for establishing community based benchmarking
 .\n\n\n\nFurther information for this workshop and Call for Abstracts is
  available at:\n\n\n	https://bc2.ch/2017/program/workshops/ws6/
LOCATION:University of Basel
SUMMARY:Benchmarking: Incentives and Best Practises across Scientific Disci
 plines - Abstracting from Established Evaluations
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.elixir-europe.org/events/benchmarking-incentives-
 and-best-practises-across-scientific-disciplines-abstracting
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR