April 2012 GMOD Meeting
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April 2012 GMOD Meeting
Immediately following
Biocuration 2012 |
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The 2012 GMOD meeting will be held April 5-6, in Washington, DC, immediately following Biocuration 2012. If you are unfamiliar with GMOD Meetings, see the writeup of the September 2010 GMOD Meeting to get an idea.
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Registration
Registration is open! Note that if you register before March 7 (i.e., standard and not late registration), you will be entered in a drawing to get some GMOD swag!
Keynote Speaker
Tentative title: "Navigating genomics resources at NCBI"
Deanna Church, Ph.D., is a staff scientist at NCBI, where she oversees several projects concerning managing and displaying genomic data, including dbVar, a database of genomic structural variation, the NCBI Map Viewer, the Clone database, and the NCBI Remap service. Dr. Church is also a member of the Genome Reference Consortium (GRC) an international consortium charged with improving the human, mouse, and zebrafish assemblies, and was an author on the two seminal manuscripts describing the human and mouse genome sequences. She has experience in molecular biology, genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, and is currently focusing on making genomic data more useful through large-scale annotation and comparative genomics. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a BA in Liberal Arts in 1990, and received her doctoral degree in the Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine in 1997. She performed postdoctoral work with Dr. Janet Rossant at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.
Location
The meeting will be held in the Reiss Science Building at Georgetown University.
Suggested Agenda Items
- GMOD/Chado/GBrowse update --Scott Cain
- GLEAN and MAKER --Aaron Mackey
- Galaxy Update -- Dave Clements
- Future GMOD Meetings? -- suggested by Dave Clements
- Stay the course or shift in emphasis'.
- Consistently co-locate with another meeting: Biocuration, PAG, ISMB, Genome Informatics, ...?
- GMOD in the Cloud -- suggested by Dave Clements
- ABrowse a new genome browser -- Kong Lei
Galaxy Workshop
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A Galaxy workshop will be held the evening of April 5, after the first day of the meeting. In this hands-on workshop, participants will use Galaxy CloudMan to setup a fully populated and scalable instance of the Galaxy data integration and analysis framework. The workshop will use Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Elastic Block Storage (EBS) platforms.
Participants need to bring their own laptops (or partner with someone who brings one).
Please register for the workshop when you register for the meeting. The workshop is free, but registration is required. Space is limited.
