Jan 2014 GMOD Meeting

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January 2014 GMOD Community Meeting logo

GMOD will be holding a community meeting on January 16th and 17th 2014 in San Diego, CA, immediately after PAG XXII.

Please register online at Eventbrite by January 14th 2014.

For those who would like to present a talk or poster, the meeting registration form includes a section for submitting the presentation title and abstract. If you presented a GMOD-related poster at PAG, we welcome you to present it at the GMOD Community Meeting.

If you have any suggestions or requests for the meeting, please contact the GMOD help desk.

Keynote Speaker

Andrew Su
Andrew Su

Tentative title: "A Centralized Model Organism Database (CMOD) for the Long Tail of Sequenced Genomes"

Andrew Su is an Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine at the Scripps Research Institute. His research focuses on applying the tools of bioinformatics, statistics, crowdsourcing, and computer science to biomedical discovery. Prior to joining Scripps in July 2011, he was the Associate Director of Bioinformatics at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) in San Diego, CA. He also serves as an Executive Editor of the journal Gene and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Gene Ontology Consortium.

Finding the meeting room

To get to the meeting room, go through the lobby and into the diner. Turn left at the end of the bar, follow the hall until the end.

Registration

Please register online at EventBrite.

The registration fee includes lunch on both days.

Agenda

This is a tentative agenda, some times may shift around still.

Thursday, January 16

Time Topic Presenter(s) Presentation
09:15 Introductions Scott Cain
09:30 The State of GMOD Scott Cain Slides
10:15 Coffee break
10:30 High throughput comparative genomics using a Chado backend Mara Kim Slides
11:00 Keynote: A Centralized Model Organism Database (CMOD) for the Long Tail of Sequenced Genomes Andrew Su Slides
12:00 Lunch and poster session
1:15 JBrowse and WebApollo Robert Buels Slides
2:00 Migrating from GBrowse to JBrowse Richard Hayes Slides
2:30 Crowdsourcing genomics with Ash dieback Dan MacLean and Martin Page Slides
3:00 Coffee break
3:15 Galaxy Dave Clements Slides
3:45 Drunken Noodle (Really Ken?) Ken Youens-Clark Slides
4:15 Creating and Maintaining Sustainable Scientific Resources Bob Muller Slides
4:45 Wrap up Scott Cain
5:00 Dinner (on your own)

Friday, January 17

Time Topic Presenter(s) Links
09:15 Unit testing for chado databases Siddhartha Basu Slides
09:45 Tripal Lacey Sanderson Slides
10:15 The FlyBase health module Andy Schroeder Slides
10:45 Coffee break
11:00 Coffea Genome Hub Stéphanie Bocs Slides
11:30 Canto community curation tool (screencast) Amelia Ireland for Val Wood, PomBase [Video]
12:00 Lunch
1:15 MAKER Daniel Ence Slides
1:45 Lightning talks, including CViT (Chromosome Visualization Tool)

Logistics

The meeting will take place at the Best Western Seven Seas (a short distance from the Town and Country where the Plant and Animal Genomes meeting is held). A block of rooms is being held for attendees of the GMOD meeting at a very good room rate. To make reservations in this block, you must call (not reserve online) (800) 328-1618 and ask for the GMOD rate.

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