June 2006 GMOD Meeting

Last updated July 17, 2006.

June 29

8:30 Shuttle from hotel to NESCent

9:00 Introductions - Scott Cain

9:20 About NESCent - Todd Vision, Kathleen Smith

9:30 Project updates - GBrowse, Apollo, PubSearch, SGD etc

10:45 Coffee break

11:00 GMOD Update, including:

• 0.01 release
• Changes to GFF3 data mapping
• New schema elements
• State of integration: Apollo, GBrowse, CMap, BioMart,AmiGO

12:00 Lunch

1:15 SynBrowse--What's new and obtaining/creating data for use.
Xiaokang Pan, Iowa State University

1:45 GMODTools, gff2biomart, and genome grid tools
Don Gilbert, Indiana University

2:15 BioMart
Arek Kasprzyk, EBI

2:45 Coffee

3:00 Pathway Tools
Suzanne Mercer Paley, SRI

3:30 GMOD Architecture Working Group - Finding requirements for a 'toy' application for testing middleware
Scott Cain as a proxy for Eric Just, DictyBase

4:30 GMOD organizational stuff

• Future meetings?
• Coordinated publications?

5:00 Break for dinner

June 30

8:30 Shuttle from hotel to NESCent

9:00 Todd Vision - NESCent, its role in enabling evolutionary model organism databases, and population and phylogenetic visualization

9:15 Terry Casstevens - The Genomic Diversity and Phenotype Data Model

9:40 John Willis - Mimulus as an example of an evolutionary model system

9:55 Owen McMillan - Extension of Chado for Heliconius

10:10 David Kidd - Visualizing phylogeographic patterns

10:30 Coffee

10:45 Jason Stajich - Fungal comparative genomics

11:10 Hilmar Lapp - An evolutionary ontology proposal

11:35 Discussion of planned projects and grant applications and how to avoid duplication and encourage cooperation

12:00 Lunch

1:15 (Presentations, show and tell, depends on what suggestions I get).

The meeting will probably officially break around 5pm, but I am realistic enough to know that people will start leaving after lunch.

GMODTools, gff2biomart, and genome grid tools slide show is here
http://eugenes.org/gmod/meetings/gmod-06jun/gmodj06-genomegrid-dgg.pdf,
and PPT