GMOD
2012 GMOD Summer School
The GMOD Summer School is a five day course that covers the use of several widely used GMOD components in the context of a organism or clade database. The course is taught by members of the projects’ development teams. Applications are competitive, since we generally receive many more applications that we have slots.
GMOD 2012 Summer School wiki (contents available to course participants only)
The Course
A 5 day hands-on course on GMOD component installation, configuration, and usage. Most sessions were four hours (a half day), and the evenings featured work sessions where the instructors for that day’s topics were available to answer questions and help participants use the tools with their data. The instructors on the course were experienced component developers and GMOD project staff.
The course covered the following topics in detail:
| Topic | Tutorial | Instructor | Affiliation; GMOD role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services set up | Tutorial | Scott Cain | Ontario Institute for Cancer Research GMOD Project Coordinator; Chado, GBrowse |
| Chado | Tutorial | Scott Cain | Ontario Institute for Cancer Research GMOD Project Coordinator; Chado, GBrowse |
| Galaxy | Tutorial | Dave Clements | Galaxy Project, Emory University Galaxy |
| GBrowse | Tutorial | Scott Cain | Ontario Institute for Cancer Research GMOD Project Coordinator; Chado, GBrowse |
| GBrowse syn | Tutorial | Sheldon McKay | iPlant Collaborative, CSHL GBrowse_syn, GBrowse |
| GFF3 | Tutorial | Scott Cain | Ontario Institute for Cancer Research GMOD Project Coordinator; Chado, GBrowse |
| JBrowse | Tutorial | Robert Buels | University of California, Berkeley JBrowse |
| MAKER | Tutorial | Barry Moore | University of Utah MAKER |
| SOBA | Tutorial | Barry Moore | University of Utah MAKER |
| Tripal | Tutorial | Stephen Ficklin | Washington State University Tripal |
| WebApollo | Tutorial | Ed Lee | Berkeley Bioinformatics Open-source Projects
(BBOP) Apollo, WebApollo |
Course Work
The 2012 Summer School used Amazon Web Services to host virtual GMOD instances containing the software and demo data used during the course. See GMOD in the Cloud for more information on the GMOD Amazon Machine Images available to the public. The tutorials used on the course are available on this wiki for interested persons to work through.
Sponsors
GMOD thanks the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) for its continued support of the GMOD project and for providing the venue for this course. NESCent is interested in outreach to groups who are underrepresented in evolutionary biology and improving evolution education, and offers resources for scientists, educators, and the general public that meet these goals.
GMOD thanks the generous grant from the Amazon AWS in Education program, which provided free compute time on Amazon Web Services for the course tutors and participants.