The Single Cell Symposium was a blast! It was great to attend this conference in person, now that it seems the covid is giving us some room to breathe (literally).
I could finally get to physically meet renowned scientist that I have been following in social networks for long time, and the surroundings of the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park building where the meeting took place were idyllic. Just to show you a peek of the views from this institute:
The talks were held from top national and international researchers in the single cell universe, and they were all very inspiring. During the poster session, I presented my poster on DeepSCore, a deep learning framework that I am developing to easily annotate multimodal single cell datasets in both Python and R using a curated reference.
It got much more attention than I expected! I literally was discussing my results to visitors the whole time. Lots of them were interested in applying my tool in their analyses, and I even got proposed to add DeepSCore in a Python single cell tool ecosystem in the future. Discussions got funnier when beers were served at the bar.
While being a bioinformatics scientist can feel like a lonely trip sometimes, where it’s basically you and your computer fighting with each other, these kind of days are the ones where you can see the outreach and effects of your efforts in the outside world. And it feels really satisfying.
If you’re interested in reading my poster with higher detail, you can find the PDF version here: