2013 GMOD Summer School
Dates: Friday July 19th - Tuesday July 23rd
Venue: NESCent, North Carolina
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.
If you have any questions, please contact the GMOD help desk.
The Course
The summer school comprises five days of hands-on courses on GMOD component installation, configuration, and usage. Most sessions are four hours (a half day), and the evenings feature work sessions where the instructors are available to answer questions and help participants use the tools with their data. The instructors on the course are experienced component developers and GMOD project staff.
The course covers the following topics in detail:
| Topic | Instructor | Affiliation; GMOD role |
|---|---|---|
| GMOD in the Cloud | Scott Cain | Ontario Institute for Cancer Research GMOD Project Coordinator; Chado, GBrowse |
| Chado | Scott Cain | Ontario Institute for Cancer Research GMOD Project Coordinator; Chado, GBrowse |
| Galaxy | Dave Clements | Galaxy Project, Emory University Galaxy |
| GBrowse | Scott Cain | Ontario Institute for Cancer Research GMOD Project Coordinator; Chado, GBrowse |
| GBrowse syn | Sheldon McKay | iPlant Collaborative, CSHL GBrowse_syn, GBrowse |
| GFF3 | Scott Cain | Ontario Institute for Cancer Research GMOD Project Coordinator; Chado, GBrowse |
| JBrowse | Robert Buels | University of California, Berkeley JBrowse |
| MAKER | Barry Moore (to be confirmed) | University of Utah MAKER |
| SOBA | Barry Moore (to be confirmed) | University of Utah MAKER |
| Tripal | Stephen Ficklin | Washington State University Tripal |
| WebApollo | Ed Lee (to be confirmed) | Berkeley Bioinformatics Open-source Projects (BBOP) Apollo, WebApollo |
Depending on the availability of an instructor, we may also have an Intermine tutorial.
Course Work
The 2013 Summer School will use Amazon Web Services to host virtual GMOD instances containing the software and demo data used during the course. See GMOD in the Cloud for more information on the GMOD Amazon Machine Images available to the public. The tutorials used on the course will be available on this wiki for interested persons to work through.
