The abrf 2020 meeting: Empowering team science

The Association of Bimolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) annual meeting was held in Palm Springs, California, USA on February 29-March 2, 2020. With 860 in attendance, the conference program featured five satellite workshops, one eminent scientist talk, four keynote talks, 24 sessions, 2 poster sessions, and fourteen technology showcases. The theme of the meeting “Empowering Team Science” encompassed bench to bedside, including extraterrestrial microbes, single cell ‘omics, multi ’omics, quantitative imaging, multidisciplinary research, shared resource management and precision medicine. Presentations on technology and applications for genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, bioinformatics, imaging and cytometry based multidisciplinary research from shared resource core laboratories continues to be the focus of the conference. Highlighted this year were the ABRF Research Groups and studies designed and analyzed to inform scientific rigor in research performed across multi institutional academic, government and industry laboratories.