Dates: Friday July 19th - Tuesday July 23rd 2013
Venue: NESCent, North Carolina
GMOD 2013 Summer School wiki (contents available to course participants only)
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:
Time slot
|
Topic
|
Instructor
|
Affiliation; GMOD role
|
Day 1, AM |
GMOD in the Cloud, AWS walkthrough |
Scott Cain |
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research GMOD Project Coordinator; Chado, GBrowse
|
Day 2, AM |
Chado Tutorial |
Scott Cain |
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research GMOD Project Coordinator; Chado, GBrowse
|
Day 5, AM |
Galaxy |
Dave Clements |
Galaxy Project, Emory University Galaxy
|
Day 4, AM |
GBrowse |
Scott Cain |
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research GMOD Project Coordinator; Chado, GBrowse
|
Day 4, PM |
GBrowse syn |
Sheldon McKay |
iPlant Collaborative, CSHL GBrowse_syn, GBrowse
|
Day 1, AM |
GFF3 |
Scott Cain |
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research GMOD Project Coordinator; Chado, GBrowse
|
Day 3, AM |
JBrowse |
Robert Buels |
University of California, Berkeley JBrowse
|
Day 1, PM |
MAKER |
Michael Campbell and Daniel Ence |
University of Utah MAKER
|
Day 1, AM/PM |
SOBA |
Michael Campbell and Daniel Ence |
University of Utah MAKER
|
Day 2, PM |
Tripal Tutorial v1.1 |
Stephen Ficklin |
Washington State University Tripal
|
Day 3, PM |
WebApollo |
Chris Childers (to be confirmed) |
University of Missouri Apollo, WebApollo
|
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.