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2008 GMOD Summer School

SummerSchoolSmall.png 2008 GMOD Summer School

July 11-13, 2008
National Evolutionary Synthesis
  Center (NESCent)

Durham, North Carolina, USA
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The first annual GMOD Summer School was a 2 1/2 day hands-on workshop aimed at teaching new GMOD users how to get up and running with popular GMOD components such as Apollo, Chado, CMap, and GBrowse. Participants included 25 students and 4 instructors, from 19 states and 4 countries. It was held at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in Durham, North Carolina, USA, July 11-13, 2008.

Contents

Program

   
The program featured two and half days of hands on training starting with an overview of GMOD and then covering installation and configuration of popular GMOD tools, include Chado, GBrowse, CMap, Apollo, and the Community Annotation System. <img

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Time Session
Friday July 11
9am - 10:30am GMOD Overview
Scott Cain and Dave Clements
Participant and instructor introductions, how the GMOD project works, what software tools are available in GMOD, how they interoperate, what resources are needed to get a GMOD installation up and running, course overview, and installing VMware appliances on student computers.
10:30am - Noon Chado: Theory
Dave Clements
Architecture and logical design of the Chado database schema: Chado's modules and extensibility, how IDs and database cross references are handled, the central role of ontologies/controlled vocabularies, and an overview of how sequence data is handled.
Noon - 1pm Lunch Break
Places to eat
NESCent is adjacent to Durham's 9th Street District.
1pm - 3pm Chado: Practice
Scott Cain
Using Chado: Installation, importing and exporting data, and a complete worked example of loading example sequence data.
3pm - 5pm GBrowse 1
Scott Cain
Overview, GBrowse installation and using GBrowse adaptors
5pm - 6pm Social Hour
Get to know your fellow GMOD Summer School participants, the instructors, and NESCent researchers.
6pm - 7:30pm Dinner Break
Places to eat
7:30pm - 9:30pm Open Discussion
Scott, Dave, Ben, Ed, and You!
This optional session is open to any and all questions you have on the GMOD Project, GMOD components, and GMOD users. The instructors will come with their knowledge of GMOD and their opinions on the project's strengths, weaknesses, and future directions. We expect this to be lively.
Saturday July 12
9am - 11:30pm GBrowse 2
Scott Cain
GBrowse Configuration: Changing defaults and displays, adding tracks, and performance tuning
11:30pm - 12:30pm Lunch Break
Places to eat
12:30pm - 4pm Apollo
Ed Lee
Overview, installation, configuration, reading/writing data, setting up a Java WebStart instance.
4pm - 5pm CMap 1
Ben Faga
Overview, installation, configuration and data importation.
5pm - 6:30pm Dinner Break
Places to eat
6:30pm - 9pm CMap 2
Ben Faga
Overview, installation, configuration and data importation.
Sunday July 13
9am - 12:30pm Community Annotation System
Scott Cain
How to install and configure the GMOD Community Annotation System, an integrated package of GMOD components (including all the ones covered in this course) that reduces much of the installation, integration, and configuration work of doing each component individually.
12:30 - 1pm Wrapup and Resources
Scott Cain and Dave Clements
Describe the resources available to GMOD users and attempt to bring the course to a coherent close.

Instructors

Sessions were taught by experienced GMOD personnel, including:

Who Attended?

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The GMOD Summer School was attended by people implementing GMOD at their organizations, and by Principal Investigators whose organizations have adopted GMOD. The course went into detail about how to install and configure GMOD components. It was aimed primarily at GMOD System Administrators, the people who actually implement and manage a GMOD installation on a day to day basis. This course was for organizations either planning to use GMOD components, or in the early phases of implementing GMOD.

Participant Affiliation
Feseha Abebe-Akele University of New Hampshire
Parker Antin University of Arizona
Burcu Bakir-Gungor Medical College of Wisconsin, RGD
Scott Cain CSHL
Dave Clements NESCent
Matthew Conte Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Sean Davey University of Arizona, BirdBase
Victor de Jager Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
Jason Dzurisin University of Notre Dame
Ben Faga CSHL
Bob Freeman Harvard University Medical School
Jean-Pierre Gauthier INRA
Glenn Harris Virgina State University
Erik Hom Harvard University
Zhiliang Hu Iowa State University
Li Jin University of Delaware
Ed Johnson University of Georgia
Ed Lee BBOP
Fabrice Legeai INRA
Xianhua Liu NESCent
Prashanti Manda Mississippi State University
Tom McNeill Syngenta Biotechnology
Christos Noutsos University of Chicago
Jason Phillips University of North Carolina
Joan Pontius National Cancer Institute
Sarah Richardson Johns Hopkins University
Stéphanie Sidibe-Bocs CIRAD
Brett Whitty Michigan State University
Andy Wu Washington State University

Prerequisites

The course requires a minimal level of Linux systems administration knowledge (see Computing Requirements). By “a minimal level of Linux systems administration knowledge” we mean that participants should be comfortable installing packages under Linux. A good benchmark for this level of knowledge is that you should be able to get a basic GBrowse installation (that is, GBrowse without MySQL) up and running with the example GBrowse data. This also requires installing Apache, and BioPerl and all its dependencies.

System Requirements

VMware on Windows and Linux

Windoze

Linux

A free VMware player is available for Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems from VMware. You will need to register to download it.

VMware on Mac OS X

Participants can also bring newer Macs with Intel processors. The Intel processor is a requirement for all the packages discussed below.

Apple

There is no free VMware player that runs directly under Mac OS X. However, there are several other options, all of which require an Intel Mac:

VMware Fusion

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VMware Fusion allows you to run VMware images, Windows and Linux under Mac OS. We recommend this option for Mac users. There is a fully functional, 30 day free trial version of VMware Fusion available for download.

Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) and Boot Camp

Boot Camp

The Leopard release of Mac OS (10.5) includes Boot Camp, a feature that allows you to boot your Mac into another operating system, including Windows or Linux. From there you can install the VMware player for your OS.*

* Apple tells you that you can partition your disk drive at any time using Boot Camp. In practice, this appears to only work easily when you first get your system.

Cost and Registration

There was no tuition cost for the GMOD Summer School. Participants were responsible for their own travel, lodging and meal expenses.

The course was full with a waiting list. Due to last minute cancellations and the flexibility of applicants we were able to get everyone who applied into the course (and we still had a full course).

Transportation, Lodging, and Meals

Participants were responsible for their own transportation, lodging and meals. Everyone who flew, came in through Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU), a 30 minute drive from NESCent. Most participants stayed at Millennium Hotel Durham, which provided a free shuttle to and from NESCent.

NESCent is adjacent to Durham’s 9th Street District where participants ate most of their meals.

Posters and Fliers

Note: Both of these posters are now out of date. The PI Track has now been combined with the Implementation track, and the schedule details shown on the second one have now changed.

Poster 1
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A poster (US Letter size) announcing the 2008 GMOD Summer School.
Poster 2
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A flier with the schedule on it also available.

Acknowledgments and Feedback

The 2008 GMOD Summer School was funded by NIH grant 1R01HG004483-01 under Ian Holmes.

*Comments on the 2008 GMOD Summer School*

“This was a very smooth course. All of the programs were focused, and well prepared. The instructions on the wiki were clear and the support from the instructors was very lively.” “Great job everybody!”

“Overall an exceptional experience!”
“Well done!”

“Great job all around.”

“I was very impressed by everyone involved in putting on the school. It was very apparent that they had gone the extra mile and really cared about the quality of the classes.”
 
“Thank you very much for this first GMOD Summer School.” “The course was what I was expecting and more.”

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