News/GMOD Tutorials! GMOD Training!

Detailed and hands-on online tutorials are now available for the GMOD Components that were covered at the 2009 GMOD Summer Schools. Each tutorial includes a VMware system image to work with, and detailed instructions on how to setup the component on that image.

The tutorials are:

• Apollo Tutorial - by Ed Lee
• Artemis-Chado Integration Tutorial - by Robin Houston, Tim Carver and Giles Velarde
• BioMart Tutorial - by Junjun Zhang and Syed Haider
• Chado Tutorial - by Scott Cain, Joshua Orvis, and Dave Clements
• GBrowse Tutorial - by Scott Cain and Sheldon McKay
• GBrowse_syn Tutorial - by Sheldon McKay
• JBrowse Tutorial - by Mitch Skinner and Ian Holmes
• MAKER Tutorial - by Carson Holt
• Tripal Tutorial - by Stephen Ficklin

There is also a plethora of GMOD related training and outreach going on in the next few months. Here's what I know about:

Date	Topic	Conference / Location
October 12-27	Programming for Biology This includes a session on GBrowse.	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harobr, NY, USA
October 21-22	Interactive Workshops on the UCSC Genome Browser and Galaxy Framework	The American Society of Human Genetics (AHSG), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
October 27-30	GBrowse and Next Generation Sequencing Data	Genome Informatics, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA
October 28-30	Database Tools for Biologists: A Half-Day GMOD Workshop	Bioinformatics Australia 2009 (BA2009), Melbourne, Australia
	Visualizing Next Generation Sequence Data with GBrowse and SAMtools (poster)
November 16-17	InterMine Data Warehouse Workshop	Cambridge, UK
	Comparative Genomics with GMOD	Information Systems for Insect Pests, Rennes, France
January 9-13	The Generic Genome Browser: A Hands on Workshop for Installing, Configuring and Using Your Own GBrowse	Plant and Animal Genome XVII Conference (PAG 2010), San Diego, CA, USA See PAG 2010 for links to many talks and presentations.
	Comparative Genomics with GBrowse_syn: A hands on workshop for visualizing your comparative genomics data with GBrowse_syn
	MAKER: An easy to use genome annotation pipeline

Dave Clements
GMOD Help Desk

Posted to the GMOD News on 2009/10/02