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@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