Every year from 2013-2017, this symposium provided a setting for researchers and trainees with an interest in computational biology, bioinformatics, and systems biology to interact. Excellent research that takes advantage of high throughput approaches, complex data, and/or high performance computing was showcased from The University of Texas at Austin, including TACC (Texas Advanced Computing Center).
In 2017, the Big Data in Biology Symposium was the kick-off event for the month-long Pop-Up Institute "Seeing the Tree and the Forest: Understanding Individual and Population Variation in Biology, Medicine, and Society." Diverse researchers—from biology, medicine, statistics, nutrition, sociology, public health, anthropology, athletics, and more collaborated across traditional research boundaries to investigate the causes and consequences of individual and population variation.