 ISMB, ECCB, Day 1 Recap, Virtual Reality and Ancient DNA. Yesterday I spent most of the day at the tutorial on Virtual Reality, where it was possible to try out several VR tools. These include Chimera X for 3D structure visualization, V-Lume for single-molecule microscopy, Selexal VR for single-cell RNA-seq visualization and most of all VR-network visualization. In the hands-on training I worked with the tutors to use DataDiver, a data uploader for VR-network, to implement Cy2VR support. Afterwards I went to the excellent keynote by Janet Kelso, who talked about archaic gene flow to modern humans, how 40% of the Neanderthal DNA is still in the current human population and how phenotypic associations can be made for this archaic DNA.