***The application deadline for both GMOD summer schools is April 6, one week from now.***
GMOD Summer School - Americas will be held 16-19 July at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), in Durham, NC, USA. Student tuition is free. See http://gmod.org/wiki/2009_GMOD_Summer_School_-_Americas GMOD Summer School - Europe will be held 3-6 August at the University of Oxford, in Oxford, UK. This is a part of GMOD Europe 2009, which includes the next GMOD Meeting. Student tuition is £95. See http://gmod.org/wiki/2009_GMOD_Summer_School_-_Europe Please contact the GMOD Help Desk ([email protected]) if you have questions. We hope to see you in Durham or Oxford, Dave C. On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Dave Clements <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > > 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 > _______________________________________________ BBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb
