2009 GMOD Summer School - Americas

2009 GMOD Summer School - Americas 16-19 July, 2009 NESCent Durham, NC, USA

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The 2009 GMOD Summer School - Americas will be held 16-19 July at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in Durham, North Carolina. Like the 2008 GMOD Summer School, this course will focus on installing, configuring and integrating popular GMOD Components.

Another GMOD Summer School is being offered in Oxford, UK in August, as part of the GMOD Europe 2009 week.

Prequisites

The course requires a minimal level of Linux systems administration knowledge (see Computing Requirements). By "a minimal level of Linux systems administration knowledge" we mean that participants should be comfortable installing packages under Linux. A good benchmark for this level of knowledge is that you should be able to get a basic GBrowse installation (that is, GBrowse without MySQL) up and running with the example GBrowse data. This also requires installing Apache, and BioPerl and all its dependencies.

Getting a basic GBrowse up and running on your system will be assigned as homework to be done prior to the course's start.

Syllabus

The syllabus will be posted here once it is finalized.

Cost and Application

This course will be free.

We expect to have the syllabus finalized (or nearly so) in March, at which point we will start accepting applications. Enrollment is limited. If interest exceeds the limited capacity of this course (we expect it will), then we will select attendees based on application.

Travel, Lodging and Food

Participants will be responsible for their own travel, lodging and food costs. We will offer a block of rooms in a local hotel at a discounted rate. The hotel will have a shuttle service to NESCent.