Dear AnVIL Community,

 

We are excited to announce that the AnVIL Community Conference 2026 (ACC2026) is coming to Cambridge, MA! Join us August 31 – September 1, 2026, at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (415 Main St, Cambridge, MA 02142) for two days of talks, posters, and collaborative workshops in genomic data science and cloud computing.

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ACC2026 will feature:

 

🗣 Keynote Speakers:

  • Kristin Ardlie, Ph.D., Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (GTEx)

  • Ben Heavner, Ph.D., University of Washington (GREGoR)

 

🧬 Invited Speakers:

  • Jill Moore, Ph.D., UMass Chan (MOHD)

  • Heidi Rehm, Ph.D., Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (seqr)

  • Benedict Paten, Ph.D., University of California Santa Cruz (HPRC)

  • Vasiliki Rahimzadeh, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine (AI & Data Policy with AnVIL)

  • John Landers, Ph.D., UMass Chan (ALS Compute)

 

🔬 Featured Talks: New technologies & data in AnVIL, with spotlights on:

  • Terra—cloud platform for biomedical research

  • Bioconductor—open-source tools for bioinformatics

  • Galaxy—accessible, reproducible bioinformatics workflows

  • Jupyter—interactive computing environments

  • Dockstore—sharing and discovery of bioinformatics tools and workflows

  • Imputation Service—genotype imputation at scale

  • seqr—variant discovery for rare disease genomics

  • AnVIL Data Explorer—browsing and querying AnVIL datasets

  • DUOS—Data Use Oversight System for streamlined data access

  • NCPI—NIH Cloud Platform Interoperability

 

📊 Poster Sessions: Present your work in genomics and cloud computing.

 

🤝 Workshops: Get onto the AnVIL platform at our workshops where you’ll learn the basics of cloud computing for genomics research on AnVIL, explore new AI tools and technologies for analysis, and learn about using AnVIL for a variety of scientific applications. Join us for more workshop sessions to be announced soon!

  • AnVIL 101—Get started with the AnVIL platform

  • AI on AnVIL—Explore AI tools and methods in the cloud

  • All of Us & AnVIL Imputation Service–Leverage the largest imputation panel to date

  • Scientific Applications on AnVIL

  • More workshops coming soon!

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Registration is now open and abstract submission will open soon!

 

Not yet on the AnVIL Mailing List? Sign up below to stay up to date on all ACC2026 news and AnVIL announcements:👉 https://lists.anvilproject.org/lists/acc2026.lists.anvilproject.org

 

We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge this fall!

 

Best regards,

The AnVIL Program


Sofia Labrecque Nieves
Senior Product Manager | Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
Email: slabrecq@broadinstitute.org | LinkedIn