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The next GMOD Community Meeting will be held 6-7 August, 2009, in Oxford UK. The meeting is a part of GMOD Europe 2009, a week long event that also includes a GMOD Summer School. This is the first time a GMOD meeting has been held in Europe.

Registration is now open, and space is available on a first come, first served basis. There is room for 55 attendees, and the meeting cost is £50.

As with previous GMOD meetings, this meeting will have a mixture of project talks, component talks, and user talks. The agenda is driven by attendee suggestions, and you are encouraged to add your suggestions now. For examples of what happens at a GMOD meeting, see the writeups of the January 2009, July 2008, or any other previous meeting. GMOD meetings are an excellent way to meet GMOD developers and users, and to learn (and affect) what's coming in the project.

Please join us in Oxford this August.

Cost and Registration

The cost is £50, which includes a catered lunch on Friday. Payment can be made with a credit card. After registering you will receive a confirmation email from Oxford, listing amount paid and your order number.

Space is limited to the first 55 people to register and is available on a first come, first served basis.

Note: We cannot provide invoices. However, we can provide a signed letter on NESCent letterhead stating that payment was received, and listing your order number, and who to contact at Oxford to confirm this. If you want such a letter, please contact Dave Clements.

Schedule

The final schedule will be posted in the week before the meeting. If you have a particular topic you want discussed, or that you want to discuss or present on, please post it below.

Scott is actively working on this agenda. If you'd like to leave a comment, add it below in the suggestions section.

Agenda Suggestions

If you have items that you would like to discuss (or be discussed) at this meeting, please add them here.

• Project update
• GMOD REST API - Presentation of the current draft spec and a feedback/discussion period. --Jogoodma
• DAS: Current Situation and Developments -- JWarren
• InterMine - update and new project with SGD, RGD and ZFIN -- Julie Sullivan
• Next Generation Sequencing - methods for viewing NGS data in GBrowse -- Steve Taylor
• GBrowse 1.70 and 2.0 releases
• JBrowse 1.0 release
• GBrowse_syn update
• Apollo plans for the next generation of Apollo
• Chado 1.1 release
• GMOD for Metagenomics? -- Clements
• Assembly life cycle management for beginners --DanBolser 14:04, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
• Linked Data for GMOD Databases - making GMOD databases machine-accessible to achieve better data sharing and reuse for bioinformaticians and application developers -- Jun Zhao
• GMOD Biological Object Layer framework

Location

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

The course will be held in the Lower Ground Seminar Rooms (LGa / LGb) of the MSTC.

Lodging

See the Lodging section of the GMOD Europe 2009 page for information on lodging for both the summer school and this meeting.

Mailing List

The meeting has a mailing list that all meeting related correspondence will be sent to:

august2009gmodmeeting@gmod.org

Once you register for the meeting, your email address will be added to the list within 24-48 hours. Any meeting participant can send an email to the list.

Sponsors

We would like to thank the Computational Biology Research Group (CBRG) of 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.

Attendees