Meetings

"It's tempting to see bioinformatics as a collection of potential problems. Being at a GMOD meeting helps us see bioinformatics as a collection of potential solutions."

Isabelle Phan, SBRI, and January 2009 GMOD Meeting Participant

GMOD puts on several types of meetings, including semi-annual community meetings and specialized hackathons. GMOD content is also presented at Training and Outreach events, run both by GMOD and by other organizations. All these events are listed on the GMOD Calendar.

GMOD Community Meetings

The next GMOD meeting will be held 13-15 September, 2010, in Cambridge, UK, as a part of GMOD Europe 2010, and immediately before Genome Informatics.

Once or twice a year the GMOD community gathers to discuss GMOD components, usage, and direction. These meetings usually occur immediately before or after a major conference that is likely to be of interest to members of the community. These meetings are open to everyone: developers, users, and potential users. Registration is usually free or low cost.

The most recent meeting was held January 14-15, 2010 in San Diego immediately following PAG 2010.

Here's a partial list of GMOD meetings.

Year	Meeting	Location	Colocated conference / Notes
2010	September	Cambridge, UK	13-15 September, as part of GMOD Europe 2010, and immediately before Genome Informatics
	January	San Diego, California, United States	After PAG 2010
2009	August	Oxford, United Kingdom	After the 2009 GMOD Summer School - Europe
	January	San Diego, California	After PAG 2009
2008	July	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Before ISMB 2008, at OICR
2007	November	Cold Spring Harbor, New York	After Genome Informatics
	Janaury	San Diego, Callfiornia	After PAG 2007. This meeting focused on user interfaces and GMOD Middleware.
2006	June	Durham, North Carolina	At NESCent
2005	October	Cold Spring Harbor, New York	Before Genome Informatics
	May	Menlo Park, California, at SRI
2004	October	Cold Spring Harbor, New York
	April	Cambridge, Massachusetts
2003	May	Cold Spring Harbor, New York	Before Genome Informatics
	February	San Diego, California	Coinciding with the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference

Other GMOD Meetings

GMOD also holds other types of meetings.

Year	Meeting	Location	Topic
2010	GMOD Tools for Evolutionary Biology Hackathon	National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), Durham, North Carolina	Enabling and extending GMOD to better support evolutionary biology. This will be held November 8-12. See the hackathon home page for details.
2007	Hackathon 2007	Chicago, Illinois
2005	GMOD Architecture Work Group	Cold Spring Harbor, New York
2002	NIH 2002 Workshop on Model Organism Databases	NIH, Bethesda, Maryland