Training and Outreach

Training and outreach is about several things. GMOD training teaches new and existing GMOD users how to use GMOD Components to help meet the goals of their organizations. GMOD outreach activities aim to inform biologists and bioinformaticists about what GMOD can do. This page describes GMOD training and outreach activities. See Support for other support options in GMOD.

Training and outreach are done by the GMOD Project Coordinator, the GMOD Help Desk, GMOD component developers, and by GMOD users.

Please contact the GMOD Help Desk if you have a training and outreach question or request.

GMOD Summer Schools

GMOD Schools are hands-on multi-day courses aimed at teaching new GMOD users how to get up and running with GMOD. Schools introduce participants to GMOD and focus on installation, configuration and integration of popular GMOD Components.

Date		School	Location
2014	February 26-28	GMOD Malaysia 2014	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
	May 19-23	GMOD Online Training 2014	Online!
2013	July 19-23	2013 GMOD Summer School	NESCent, Durham, NC, United States
2012	August 24-29	2012 GMOD Summer School	NESCent, Durham, NC, United States
2011	March 8-12	2011 GMOD Spring Training	NESCent, Durham, NC, United States
2010	May 6-9	2010 GMOD Summer School - Americas	NESCent, Durham, NC, United States
2009	3-6 August	2009 GMOD Summer School - Europe	Oxford, United Kingdom
	16-19 July	2009 GMOD Summer School - Americas	NESCent, Durham, NC, United States
2008	11-13 July	2008 GMOD Summer School	NESCent, Durham, NC, United States

Other Training and Tutorials

This section lists GMOD related training that happens outside of the GMOD Summer Schools. It also includes non-GMOD workshops that benefit a large portion of the GMOD community.

Date		Tutorial	Conference / Location	Contact
2009	July 20-23	Biomedical Ontologies Tutorials	International Conference of Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO), Buffalo, NY, USA	Barry Smith
2008	October 30-31	InterMine Data Warehouse Workshop	Cambridge, UK	Richard Smith
	September 22-23	BioCyc / Pathway Tools Tutorial	London, UK	Peter Karp
	September 2-5	Pathway Tools Tutorial	Menlo Park, CA, USA	Peter Karp

Online Tutorials

In addition to in person training, there are in depth online tutorials on several GMOD Components:

Component	Title	Desription
Apollo	Apollo Userguide	A comprehensive guide to installing and using Apollo.
	Apollo tutorials at the Dynamic Gene web site	Flash based tutorials on how to use Apollo, using rice as an example. Sections of particular interest are Annotation - how to use Apollo, and Resources - how to download sample data and install Apollo on an MS Windows system.
CMap	Gramene CMap User Tutorial	Available in both PDF and PowerPoint formats. This explains how to use CMap in the context of Gramene.
GBrowse	GBrowse User Tutorial	A Flash based tutorial on using GBrowse. Provided by OpenHelix. Tutorial includes slides, handouts and exercises.
	GBrowse Administration Tutorial	Detailed explanation of how to install and configure GBrowse.

This website also has a large collection of HOWTOs on more specific tasks.

Conference Workshops

GMOD also offers workshops at conferences. These can be purely training, purely outreach, or a mixture of the two.

Date		Workshop	Conference / Location	Contact
2009	June 11	Chado Databases and Integration with GMOD Tools	2009 Arthropod Genomics Symposium, Kansas City, MO, USA	Scott Cain
	April 2-4	Visualizing and Integrating Next Generation Sequence Data using GMOD	Evolutionary Genetics - the impact of next generation sequencing technologies, Wittenberg, Germany	Dave Clements
	January 14	Comparative Genomics with GBrowse_syn: A hands on workshop for visualizing your syntenic data with GBrowse_syn	Plant and Animal Genome XVII Conference (PAG 2009), San Diego, CA, USA	Sheldon McKay
	January 11	The Generic Genome Browser: A Hands on Workshop for Installing, Configuring and Using Your Own GBrowse		Scott Cain
2008	April 11	Chado - A Database Schema for Integrating Biological Data	Arthropod Genomics Symposium, Kansas City, MO, USA	Scott Cain
	April 10	Community Contributions to Genome Annotation (Apollo)		Christine Elsik
	January 15	The Generic Genome Browser: A Hands on Workshop for Installing, Configuring and Using Your Own GBrowse	Plant and Animal Genome XVII Conference (PAG 2008)	Scott Cain

Outreach: Posters and Presentations

Some presentations and most posters are for outreach. That is, they are about letting people know what can be done with GMOD, rather than the details of how it is done.

Date		Poster / Presentation	Conference / Location	Contact
2009	January 10-14	Comparative Genomics Software Packages at GMOD	Plant and Animal Genome XVII Conference (PAG 2009), San Diego, CA, USA	Scott Cain
		Managing Next Generation Sequence Data with GMOD		Dave Clements
2008	July 20-24	GMOD: Managing genomic data from emerging model organisms	ISMB 2008, Toronto, ON, Canada	Dave Clements
	June 4-7	GMOD: Genomics Resources for Emerging Model Organisms	American Genetic Association Annual Symposium, Raleigh, NC, USA	Dave Clements
	April 11-13	GMOD: Database Resources for Emerging Model Organisms	Arthropod Genomics Symposium, Kansas City, MO, USA	Dave Clements
	April 4-6	GMOD: Informatics Resources for Evolutionary Research	IGERT Symposium on Evolution, Development, and Genomics, Eugene, OR, USA	Dave Clements
		GMOD Tools for Comparative Genomics
2007	November 1-5	Digesting the Genome Glut: Promoting the Use and Extension of GMOD To Emerging Model Organisms	Genome Informatics 2007, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA	Dave Clements
	July 9	The GMOD Project: Creating Reusable Software Components for Genome Data	Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics at Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA	Scott Cain
2006	May 10-14	An Example Comparative Genome Database for Yeasts Using GMOD Tools	The Biology of Genomes, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA	Scott Cain

See the Posters and Presentations categories for many additional presentations by GMOD staff, developers and users.

GMOD Community Meetings

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January 2009 GMOD Meeting

Finally, once or twice a year the GMOD community gathers to discuss GMOD Components, best practices, and project direction. These meetings usually occur immediately before or after a major conference that is likely to be of interest to members of the community. Meetings are open to everyone: developers, users, and potential users. Registration is often free. GMOD also sponsors a few other types of meetings such as hackathons. See Meetings for more.