2012 GMOD Summer School
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2012 GMOD Summer School, August 24-29, 2012
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Introduction
The GMOD Summer School is a five day course that covers the use of several widely used GMOD components in the context of a organism or clade database. The course is taught by members of the projects' development teams. Applications are competitive, since we generally receive many more applications that we have slots.
Application
The application is available as a Google form. The deadline is July 9.
Schedule
Friday August 23 |
7:30am-9:00pm | Optional introductory session |
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Saturday August 25 |
8:30am-6:00pm 7:30pm-9pm |
2012 GMOD Summer School |
Sunday August 26 |
8:30am-6:00pm 7:30pm-9pm | |
Monday August 27 |
8:30am-6:00pm 7:30pm-9pm | |
Tuesday August 28 |
8:30am-6:00pm 7:30pm-9pm | |
Friday August 29 |
8:30am-6:30pm |
Most sessions will last half a day. Each night the instructors for that day's topics will be available to answer questions and help participants use the tools with their data.
Instructors
Sessions are taught by experienced component developers and GMOD project staff:
Prerequisites
The course requires a minimal level of Linux systems administration knowledge (see Computing Requirements). By "a minimal level of Linux systems administration knowledge" we mean that participants should be
- Comfortable with the Linux command line interface, and
- Comfortable installing packages under Linux.
A good benchmark for this level of knowledge is that you should be able to get a basic GBrowse installation (that is, GBrowse without MySQL) up and running with the example GBrowse data. This also requires installing Apache, and BioPerl and all its dependencies.
System Requirements
Previous incarnations of this course used VMware images. The 2012 instance will use the Amazon Web Service (aka, the cloud). The only software required to be on students' laptops is a ssh client (like putty for Windows, or the builtin ssh client in the Mac OS), a web browser (preferably up to date (and avoiding Internet Explorer is a good idea)), and possibly (depending on what we do) Java.
Costs
There will be a tuition of $300 charged for the course to cover expenses, primarily instructor travel expenses.
Travel, Lodging and Meals
Suggestions for travel into the Durham, NC area will be forthcoming, as well as a suggested hotel.