Jan 2014 GMOD Meeting
GMOD will be holding a community meeting on January 16th and 17th 2014 in San Diego, CA, immediately after PAG XXII.
Online registration is now open at EventBrite.
For those who would like to present a talk or poster, the meeting registration form includes a section for submitting the presentation title and abstract. If you presented a GMOD-related poster at PAG, we welcome you to present it at the GMOD Community Meeting.
If you have any suggestions or requests for the meeting, please contact the GMOD help desk.
Keynote Speaker
Tentative title: "A Centralized Model Organism Database (CMOD) for the Long Tail of Sequenced Genomes"
Andrew Su is an Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine at the Scripps Research Institute. His research focuses on applying the tools of bioinformatics, statistics, crowdsourcing, and computer science to biomedical discovery. Prior to joining Scripps in July 2011, he was the Associate Director of Bioinformatics at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF) in San Diego, CA. He also serves as an Executive Editor of the journal Gene and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Gene Ontology Consortium.
Registration
Please register online at EventBrite.
The registration fee includes lunch on both days.
Tentative agenda items
- GMOD project updates, including Tripal, Galaxy, JBrowse, Chado, MAKER and WebApollo.
- Talks on:
- Migrating from GBrowse to JBrowse (Richard Hayes)
- Crowdsourcing genomics with Ash dieback (including WebApollo with badges!) (Dan MacLean and Martin Page)
- Creating and Maintaining Sustainable Scientific Resources (Phoenix Bioinformatics and TAIR) (Bob Muller)
- Drunken noodle (Ken Youens-Clark)
- Google Summer of Code: what it is and why you should participate
Logistics
The meeting will take place at the Best Western Seven Seas (a short distance from the Town and Country where the Plant and Animal Genomes meeting is held). A block of rooms is being held for attendees of the GMOD meeting at a very good room rate. To make reservations in this block, you must call (not reserve online) (800) 328-1618 and ask for the GMOD rate.
