GMOD
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 past GMOD meeting participant
GMOD has put 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. Full community meeting happen significantly less often now, as funding for them doesn’t really exist. Targeted hackathons or code fests are more common and frequently happen around other meetings.
GMOD Community Meetings
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 low cost.
A (partial) list of GMOD meetings:
| Year | Meeting | Location | Colocated conference / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | June | Bloomington, Indiana, United States | Immediately after GCC2016. |
| 2014 | January | San Diego, CA | Immediately after PAG. |
| 2013 | April | Cambridge UK | Immediately before Biocuration 2013. |
| 2012 | April | Washington DC, United States | Immediately after Biocuration 2012. Includes a Galaxy workshop. |
| 2011 | October | Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), Toronto, Canada | Also included BioMart, Galaxy, and MAKER workshops, and an InterMine development meeting. |
| March | NESCent, Durham, North Carolina, United States | Part of GMOD Americas 2011 | |
| 2010 | September | Cambridge, UK | 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, United States | After PAG 2009 | |
| 2008 | July | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Before ISMB 2008, at OICR |
| 2007 | November | Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States | After Genome Informatics |
| January | San Diego, California, United States | After PAG 2007. This meeting focused on user interfaces and GMOD Middleware. | |
| 2006 | June | Durham, North Carolina, United States | At NESCent |
| 2005 | October | Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States | Before Genome Informatics |
| May | Menlo Park, California, United States | at SRI | |
| 2004 | October | Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States | |
| April | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States | ||
| 2003 | May | Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States | Before Genome Informatics |
| February | San Diego, California, United States | Coinciding with the O’Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference |
Other GMOD 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 |