January 2010 GMOD Meeting

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January 2010 GMOD Meeting
January 14-15, 2010

Following PAG 2010
San Diego, California, USA
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The next GMOD community meeting will be held January 14-15, 2010, in San Diego, immediately following Plant and Animal Genome XVIII (PAG 2010). The meeting will be held at the Best Western Seven Seas (see Lodging below), which is adjacent to the Town and Country Resort, where PAG is being held.

The meeting is now full. However, you may get on the waiting list by filling out the registration form now.

Thanks to the generous support of USDA-ARS and NIH, registration for this meeting is free.

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Guest Speaker: Dr. Maryann Martone

Our special guest speaker will be Dr. Maryann Martone, who will discuss her work on using ontologies in the field of neuroscience. Her research demonstrates the power of ontologies to bring together large volumes of disparate data into a unified whole using the semantic relationships that ontologies enable. Maryann is a Professor at UC San Diego, where she is the PI for the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF), a web portal, providing simultaneous, deep web searches across multiple databases, web pages and literature. She is also Co-Director of the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR), where her research focuses on ontologies in image analysis and data mining tools.

Agenda Proposals

If you have something you want to be on the agenda at this meeting please add it below.

  • Using the 2009 GMOD Community Survey results for guidance -- Dave Clements
  • 2010 GMOD Summer Schools -- Dave Clements
  • GMOD tools in the frame of GnpAnnot projects (-- Michael Alaux -- Joelle Amselem, on the 14th)
    • Roundtrip GBrowseChadoApollo at URGI for community of annotation (fungal and plant genomes)
    • The Chado Controller : a user authentication and logging addon to Chado.
    • GMOD Report : a Java based middleware for Chado.
  • Using and developing Schema, integrating it with other DBIx::Class-based code -- Robert Buels
  • Discussion toward standard website platforms for MOD sites -- Robert Buels
  • StrategiesWDK: intro to a powerful MOD-compatible search UI -- Steve Fischer
  • Give Textpresso meeting talk, Nathan Liles
  • TableEdit, Daniel Renfro, Jim Hu, TableEdit on MediaWiki
  • Providing a biologist-centered interface for running and customizing Ergatis pipelines -- Chris Hemmerich
  • Using Drupal and Flex to Create User-Configurable Interfaces for GMOD Databases for Use in Transcriptional Genomics Research -- Michael Caudy
  • Your suggestion here. (Login to edit this section.)

Satellite Meetings

This year (for the first time I believe) there will be satellite meetings in addition to the main meeting. Satellite meetings are about a particular topic or work area of interest that people want to spend more time on then they can during the main meeting.

  • Satellite meetings re self-organized. That is, if you want to get together with other people to discuss or work on a particular topic:
    • Suggest a satellite meeting below, and on the appropriate GMOD Mailing Lists.
    • Include your contact information and a suggested time and date.
    • You may also want to create a wiki page for the satellite meeting.
  • Satellite meetings take place outside the times of the main meeting.
  • Satellite meetings have any particular space reserved for them. As the meetings crystallize, the GMOD Help Desk will be happy to help locate nearby facilities with free wifi.
Topic Suggested Date Organizer(s) Comments
GMOD REST Hackathon January 13, all day Josh Goodman (email) I'd like to do a small GMOD REST API hackathon with a goal of producing a working prototype at the end. Ideally I'd like to do a solid day of coding activities but if you can only come for part of thetime that is fine too.

I've posted a rough schedule and other information on the GMOD REST Hackathon page.

If you want to attend please add your name to that page.

BioPerl January 13, tentative Jason Stajich, Chris Fields This will be a meeting (possibly followed by a hackathon) that will address BioPerl's current issues, future directions, etc. It is anticipated that there will be overlap with other groups and satellite meetings.

Sign up for the meeting and detail specific topics on the main BioPerl website.

Tripal Working Group January 13, 4-6pm Stephen Ficklin A discussion of Tripal with an emphasis on future development plans. Anyone using Tripal, planning on or interested in it, or with an interest in using Drupal as a web front end to Chado is encouraged to attend.

If you are interested, please add your name to the Tripal Working Group page. You may also want to subscribe to the Tripal mailing list.

Chado Natural Diversity Module Working Group January 8, 5pm Dave Clements A discussion of the Chado Natural Diversity Module, currently under development.

If you are interested, please add your name to the working group page (once that page exists :-).

Agenda

The final agenda will be posted shortly before the meeting.

Thursday, January 14

Time Topic Presenter(s) Links

Friday, January 15

Time Topic Presenter(s) Links

Meeting Participants

First Name(s) Last Name Affiliation URL
Michael Alaux INRA, France http://urgi.versailles.inra.fr/
Joelle Amselem INRA-URGI http://urgi.versailles.inra.fr/
David Arcoleo Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign http://beespace.uiuc.edu
Muhammad Ashraf Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada
Saravanaraj Ayyampalayam University of Georgia
Yuri Bendana USC BISC-MCB
Aaron Buechlein The Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics
Robert Buels SGN http://solgenomics.net
Scott Cain GMOD / OICR http://gmod.org / http://www.oicr.on.ca/
Michael Caudy Reactome http://www.reactome.org
Chris Childers Bovine Genome Database; BeeBase; NasoniaBase; Hymenoptera Genome Database http://bovinegenome.org; http://beebase.org; http://nasoniabase.org; http://hymenopteragenome.org
Dave Clements GMOD / NESCent http://gmod.org / http://nescent.org
Jonathan Crabtree Institute for Genome Sciences / University of Maryland Baltimore
david elzinga Undergrad working on EST annotation and Genome assembly at BYU(Utah)
Stephen Ficklin Clemson University Genomics Institute http://www.genome.clemson.edu/
Christopher Fields Institute for Genomic Biology
steve fischer EuPathDB EuPathDB.org
Eric Ganko Syngenta
Aureliano Bombarely Gomez Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research http://solgenomics.net/
Josh Goodman FlyBase http://flybase.org/
Gowthaman Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
Todd Harris WormBase http://www.wormbase.org/
Chris Hemmerich Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics http://cgb.indiana.edu/
LE, Quang Hien Vilmorin & Cie http://www.vilmorin.info
Ben Hitz SGD http://www.yeastgenome.org/
Zhiliang Hu Iowa State University http://www.animalgenome.org
Jim Hu EcoliWiki http://ecoliwiki.net
Anita Lakatos UCI
John Lee USDA-ARS-WRRC-GGD
Nathan Liles Textpresso / GBrowse / EcoliWiki http://textpresso.org
Dawei Lin UC Davis http://bioinformatics.ucdavis.edu/
Maryann Martone UC San Diego Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF), National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR)
Sheldon McKay CSHL/iPlant
Rex Nelson SoyBase http://soybase.org
Brian O'Connor GMODWeb
RASHEED ABIODUN ODUNTAN NACGRAB
Youlian Pan National Research Council Canada, Ottawa / Arabidopsis / Brassica http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/iit-iti/index.html
Ram Podicheti Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics http://www.cgb.indiana.edu/
Keiran Raine Cancer Genome Project (Wellcome Trust) - Human, Mouse http://www.sanger.ac.uk/research/projects/cancergenome.html
Justin Reese BeeBase/Bovine Genome Database/Hymenoptera Genome Database
Daniel Renfro EcoliWiki http://ecoliwiki.net
Lacey-Anne Sanderson Dept Plant Sciences, University of Saskachewan
Carl Schmidt University of Delaware / Gallus
Mitchell Skinner UC Berkeley http://jbrowse.org
Richard Smith University of Cambridge http://www.intermine.org
Jason Stajich BioPerl, FungalGenomes, University of California, Riverside http://fungalgenomes.org/
Meg Staton Clemson University
Jaideep Sundaram Computational Genomics Laboratory Georgetown University
Alexander Tchourbanov New Mexico State University, Biology Department http://www.wyomingbioinformatics.org/~achurban/
Eric Kenneth Wafula Depamphilis Lab, Penn State university http://depcla4.bio.psu.edu/



Best Western Seven Seas

Venue and Lodging

The meeting is being held at the Best Western Seven Seas, which is adjacent to the Town and Country Resort, where PAG is being held. Rooms are available to GMOD meeting participants at the special rate of $72/night plus tax. Rooms can be booked at this rate for the entire duration of PAG 2010 and this GMOD meeting. The hotel also offers a complimentary shuttle to and from the airport.

A room can be booked by calling +1 619 291 1300. Mention "GMOD" to get the special rate.

Feedback

"It's tempting to see bioinformatics as a collection of potential problems. Being at a GMOD meeting helps us see bioinformatics as a collection of potential solutions."
Isabelle Phan, SBRI, and January 2009 GMOD Meeting Participant

We will solicit feedback from meeting participants and post it here once we have it.

Feedback on previous meetings (August 2009, January 2009, and 2008 and before) has been very positive.