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We are in the process of applying for funds for scholarships for participants from developing countries.  Please state on your application if your attendance is, or might be, dependent on this funding.
 
We are in the process of applying for funds for scholarships for participants from developing countries.  Please state on your application if your attendance is, or might be, dependent on this funding.

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GMOD Europe 2009 GMOD Europe 2009}} 2009 GMOD Summer School - Europe
3-6 August, 2009
Oxford UK


Part of GMOD Europe 2009, five days of GMOD including a Community Meeting

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The 2009 GMOD Summer School - Europe will be held 3-6 August in Oxford, UK. Like the 2008 GMOD Summer School, this course will focus on installing, configuring and integrating popular GMOD Components.

The summer school is a part of GMOD Europe 2009 a week long event that also include the August 2009 GMOD Meeting. Another GMOD Summer School is being offered in Durham, North Carolina in July 2009.

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Draft Program

The program will feature 3 ½ days of hands-on training starting with an overview of GMOD, and then covering the installation, configuration, and administration of several popular GMOD Components.

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Date Time Session
Monday
3 August
8:30 Introduction and Overview
Scott Cain and Dave Clements
Participant and instructor introductions, how the GMOD project works, what software tools are available in GMOD, how they interoperate, what resources are needed to get a GMOD installation up and running, and course overview.
10:10 VMware and BioPerl Setup
Everyone
Get the GMOD Summer School VMware image up and running on your laptop, and then finish installation of BioPerl.
12:00 Catered Lunch
13:00 Chado
Scott Cain and Dave Clements
18:00 Day ends
Tuesday
4 August
8:30 GBrowse
Scott Cain and Sheldon Mckay
12:30 Catered Lunch
13:30 GBrowse_syn
Sheldon Mckay
18:00 Day ends
Wednesday
5 August
8:30 BioMart
Junjun Zhang
Introduction; exploring over 20 public databases through BioMart central portal; system installation; accessing BioMart server via API, webservice and DAS; configuration of BioMart server including federation; demonstration of creating data mart.
12:30 Lunch on your own
13:45 Apollo
Ed Lee
Overview, installation (from installers and from source), configuration, reading/writing data, remote analyses, and setting up a customized Java Web Start instance.
18:00 Day ends
Thursday
6 August
8:30 Artemis-Chado Integration
Robin Houston and Tim Carver
Artemis and ACT: Overview, installation, configuration, reading & writing data to Chado.
10:10 JBrowse
Ian Holmes
11:30 Wrapup and Resources
Dave Clements and Scott Cain
12:00 Summer School Ends
13:30-
18:00
August 2009 GMOD Meeting
Friday
7 August
8:30-
18:00

Likely Instructors

Instructor GMOD Contribution Affiliation
Scott Cain GMOD Project Coordinator Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR)
Tim Carver Artemis lead developer Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Dave Clements GMOD Help Desk National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)
Ian Holmes JBrowse PI University of California, Berkeley
Robin Houston Artemis manager Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Ed Lee Lead Apollo developer Berkeley Bioinformatics Open-source Projects (BBOP)
Sheldon Mckay Lead GBrowse_syn developer, GBrowse developer Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Junjun Zhang BioMart developer OICR

Applications

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Cost

Tuition for the course will be £95. In addition, participants will be responsible for their own travel and living expenses.

We are in the process of applying for funds for scholarships for participants from developing countries. Please state on your application if your attendance is, or might be, dependent on this funding.

Tuition for this course does not include registration for the August 2009 GMOD Meeting. The meeting will have a separate registration cost from the summer school.

Location

The course is being held at the Medical Science Teaching Centre (MSTC) at the University of Oxford, in Oxford, United Kingdom.

Transportation, Lodging, Meals

See the Transportation and Lodging sections of the GMOD Europe 2009 page for information on tranport and lodging for both the summer school and August 2009 GMOD Meeting.

Breakfast is provided by the recommended lodging option(s). Lunch will be provided for the first two days of the course. Dinner is on your own every night.

Sponsors

CBRG

We would like to thank the Computational Biology Research Group (CBRG) at the University of Oxford for hosting and sponsoring the week's events.

We would also welcome additional sponsors to help reduce the cost of registration. Please contact the GMOD Help Desk if you are interested.

Comments on the 2008 GMOD Summer School
“This was a very smooth course. All of the programs were focused, and well prepared. The instructions on the wiki were clear and the support from the instructors was very lively.” “Great job everybody!”

“Overall an exceptional experience!”
“Well done!”

“Great job all around.”

“I was very impressed by everyone involved in putting on the school. It was very apparent that they had gone the extra mile and really cared about the quality of the classes.”
 
“Thank you very much for this first GMOD Summer School.” “The course was what I was expecting and more.”