[BBC] 2009 GMOD Summer School - Europe

[Dave Clements]

Hello,

This is a reminder that the application deadline for the 2009 GMOD
Summer School - Europe is 6 April, one week from now.

The 2009 GMOD Summer School - Europe
(http://gmod.org/wiki/2009_GMOD_Summer_School_-_Europe) will be held
3-6 August, 2009 at the University of Oxford, as a part of GMOD Europe
2009 (http://gmod.org/wiki/GMOD_Europe_2009).  Tuition is £95.

GMOD (http://gmod.org/) is a collection of interoperable open source
software components for managing, visualizing, annotating and
integrating biological data.  It is also a community of developers and
users dealing with similar challenges.

The course offers hands-on training on how to deploy and administer:
 * Genome / Comparative Genomics Viewers - GBrowse, JBrowse, GBrowse_syn, Apollo
 * Genome Annotation - Apollo, Artemis-Chado Integration
 * Databases - Chado, BioMart

Please contact the GMOD Help Desk (help at gmod.org) if you have questions.

Thanks,

Dave Clements
GMOD Help Desk

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Dave Clements <clements at nescent.org> wrote:
> We are now accepting applications for the 2009 GMOD Summer Schools:
>
> Americas, 16-19 July
>  - National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), Durham, NC, USA
>  - Student tuition is free, thanks to NIH grant 1R01HG004483-01.
>  - http://gmod.org/wiki/2009_GMOD_Summer_School_-_Americas
>
> Europe, 3-6 August
>  - University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
>  - Part of GMOD Europe 2009, which includes the next GMOD Meeting
>  - Student tuition is £95
>  - http://gmod.org/wiki/2009_GMOD_Summer_School_-_Europe
>
> GMOD (http://gmod.org/) is a collection of interoperable open source
> software components for managing, visualizing, annotating and
> integrating biological, mostly genomic, data.  GMOD is also a
> community of developers and users dealing with similar challenges.
> GMOD is used in diverse contexts, with both emerging and established
> model organisms.
>
> GMOD Summer Schools (http://gmod.org/wiki/GMOD_Summer_School)
> introduce new GMOD users to the GMOD project and feature several days
> of hands-on training on how to install, configure and administer GMOD
> tools.
>
> The courses includes training on several GMOD components:
>  * GBrowse - the widely used Generic Genome Browser
>  * Chado - a modular and extensible database schema for biological data
>  * Apollo - genome annotation editor
>  * BioMart - biological data warehouse system
>  * GBrowse_syn - a GBrowse based synteny viewer
>  * JBrowse - a brand new Web 2.0 genome browser
>  * Artemis-Chado Integration (Europe only)
>  * MAKER - Genome annotation pipeline (Americas only)
>  * Tripal - Web front end for Chado (Americas only)
>
> ***Please submit an application by the end of 6 April 2009, if you are
> interested in attending. ***
>
> Enrollment is limited to 25 students in each course.  If applications
> exceed capacity (and we expect they will) then applicants will be
> picked based on the strength of their application.  Applicants will be
> notified of their admission status in mid-April.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave Clements
> GMOD Help Desk
> help at gmod.org
>
> http://gmod.org/wiki/2009_GMOD_Summer_School_-_Americas
> http://gmod.org/wiki/2009_GMOD_Summer_School_-_Europe
> http://gmod.org/wiki/GMOD_Europe_2009
>