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Friday 5 April, 9:00-17:00

Saturday 6 April, 9:00-16:00 (or until all topics have been covered)

Meeting location: the Hauser Forum, Cambridge, UK

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Registration

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Speakers

If you are interested in giving a talk at the meeting, please contact the GMOD Help Desk with the topic of the talk and estimated time length. If you would like to give a lightning talk, you can sign up below or email the help desk.

Agenda

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Kentaro Yoshida of The Sainsbury Lab on the Open Ash Dieback Project

Friday April 5th

The Open Ash Dieback project, an exciting (and vital) effort to gain insight into ash dieback, a chronic fungal disease of ash trees. Ash dieback is caused by a fungus, Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus, and is characterised by leaf loss and crown dieback in infected trees. Ash dieback has already caused significant damage to tree populations in northern Europe and was recently discovered in the UK. The Open Ash Dieback project embraces the new paradigms of open science and crowdsourcing by making all its data public and asking scientists to analyse genetic data from ash and the fungus.

More information and media coverage of OADB:

• Paper: Crowdsourcing genomic analyses of ash and ash dieback – power to the people
• Scientists crowdsource to decode genetic code of ash dieback fungus - from The Guardian
• Open Science versus Ash Dieback

Agenda

Morning: 9:00am start

• State of the GMOD Project (Scott, Amelia)
  • GMOD: the 5 year plan (Scott)
  • GMODsurveyome redux (Amelia Ireland)
• Updates on GBrowse, Chado (Scott)

10:30-10:45 Tea/coffee break

• BioJS (Manuel Corpas)
• Community Building and Maintenance (Dave Clements) -- if time; otherwise, this topic will be covered in the afternoon session
• Keynote: Open Ash Dieback project (approx 11:30 am)

Lunch: approximately 12:30-13:30; lunch will not be catered, so attendees can pick from the eateries on the West Cambridge site

Afternoon: 13:30 - 17:00; tea/coffee break at 15:00-15:15

• iAnn collaborative announcement dissemination (Manuel Corpas)
• Drupal at EBI (Joseph Rossetto/Bren Vaughan)
• Updates on actively developed GMOD components
  • JBrowse (Gregg Helt)
  • WebApollo (Moni Munoz-Torres)
  • MAKER (Barry Moore) -- to be confirmed
  • Galaxy Project Update (Dave Clements)
  • InterMine (Alex Kalderimis)

Saturday April 6th

Morning: 9:00 am start

• GMOD tool updates, cont'd; if time, start lightning talks

10:00 What the Gene Ontology can do for you (Jane Lomax)

10:45-11:00 Tea/coffee break

• Tripal (Stephen Ficklin)
• Lightning talks:
  • TAIR PLAIN, Bob Muller
  • Using CAS-Utils (Community Annotation System Utilities) in real life (Emmet O'Brien)
  • What to do about dormant / dead GMOD components, (Amelia Ireland)
  • Demeter: A data-harvester for biological sources, (Alex Kalderimis)
  • Banana Genome Hub, Delphine Larivière
  • WormBase - Some notes on running a MOD in the cloud

Lunch: 12:30-13:30, catered

Afternoon: 13:30 until all done!

• Any lightning talks that were not completed in the AM
• Next GMOD meeting: suggested locations, dates

• Galaxy CloudMan Workshop (Dave Clements) for those interested

If you have any suggestions for topics or activities for the 2013 GMOD meeting, please add them here or email them to the GMOD helpdesk.

Remote Attendance

The test run of GoToMeeting revealed that it is not compatible with a number of users' browsers, so we will instead try WebEx, and if that does not work, a Google hangout (limited to 10 participants, unfortunately). Please email amelia.ireland@gmod.org to get the details for attending the meeting online.

Accommodation

Accommodation is available at Churchill College (the location of Biocuration 2013) for £60 +VAT for a single room with en suite bathroom; this price includes breakfast. Please contact Kelly Bridge, Conference Co-ordinator (Accommodation), directly on kelly.bridge@chu.cam.ac.uk to book.

Other options are also available in Cambridge, including Lucy Cavendish College which has rooms available for the full span of the GMOD and Biocuration meetings. Lady Cavendish is a 10 minute walk to the Biocuration meeting and a 20 minute walk to the GMOD Meeting.