GMOD Evo Hackathon

Proposal for GMOD NESCent hackathon

NESCent has funds to support a certain number of hackathons every year. We are proposing a GMOD hackathon for June 2010. It would have a focus on extending GMOD for evolutionary biology, and would probably propose funding for 10-15 attendees. Proposals are reviewed on a competitive basis.

Organizing Committee

• Sheldon McKay
• Scott Cain
• Nicole Washington
• Robert Buels
• Hilmar Lapp

Proposed Topics

• Alignment metadata
• Population diversity support for chado and associated application connectivity (a la GDPDM)
• Evolutionary phenotype data in chado
• GBrowse_syn compatibility with SAM data
• Chado change management, release process, schema versioning
• handling pangenomes
• integration with the GO consortium's PAINT project to infer GO terms from the annotations associated with nodes in phylogenetic trees

Proposed Dates

June 7-11, 2010