Hello all, Just a reminder that the abstract submission deadline for the Galaxy Community Conference is next Monday, February 28. See http://galaxy.psu.edu/gcc2011/Abstracts.html for details.
Cheers, Dave C. PS: And there is still space at the GMOD Meeting being held March 5-6 @ NESCent: http://gmod.org/wiki/March_2011_GMOD_Meeting On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Dave Clements <[email protected]>wrote: > We are pleased to announce the *2011 Galaxy Community Conference*, being > held *May 25-26 in Lunteren, The Netherlands*. The meeting will feature > two full days of presentations and discussion on extending Galaxy to use new > tools and data sources, deploying Galaxy at your organization, and best > practices for using Galaxy to further your own and your community's > research. See http://galaxy.psu.edu/gcc2011/ for complete details. > > *About Galaxy: > *Galaxy is an open, web-based platform for *accessible, reproducible, and > transparent* computational biomedical research. > > - *Accessibility:* Galaxy enables users without programming experience > to easily specify parameters and run tools and workflows. > - *Reproducibility:* Galaxy captures all information necessary so that > any user can repeat and understand a complete computational analysis. > - *Transparency:* Galaxy enables users to share and publish analyses > via the web and create Pages--interactive, web-based documents that > describe > a complete analysis. > > Galaxy is open source for all organizations. The public Galaxy service ( > http://usegalaxy.org) makes analysis tools, genomic data, > tutorial demonstrations, persistent workspaces, and publication services > available to any scientist that has access to the Internet. Local > Galaxy servers can be set up by downloading the Galaxy application and > customizing it to meet particular needs. > > *Conference Overview: > * > This event aims to engage a broader community of developers, data > producers, tool creators, and core facility and other research hub staff to > become an active part of the Galaxy community. We'll cover defining > resources in the Galaxy framework, increasing their visibility and making > them easier to use and integrate with other resources, how to extend Galaxy > to use custom data sources and custom tools, and best practices for using > Galaxy in your organization. > > Additional topics include, but are not limited to: > * Talks submitted by the Galaxy community > * Integration of tools (including NGS analysis tools) and distributed job > management > * Deployment of Galaxy instances on local resources and on the Cloud > * Management of large datasets with the Galaxy Library System > * Using the Galaxy LIMS functionality at NGS sequencing facilities > * Visualizing Data without leaving Galaxy > * Performing reproducible research > * Performing and sharing complex analyses with Workflows > * An "Introduction to Galaxy" session, offered on May 24, for Galaxy > newcomers. > > *Registration: > * > The conference fee is €100 on or before April 24, and €120 after that. The > meeting is being held at the Conference Centre De Werelt in Lunteren, The > Netherlands, which is also the conference hotel. You are encouraged to > register early, as space at the hotel (and at the "Intro to Galaxy" session) > is limited and is likely to fill up before the conference itself does. See > http://galaxy.psu.edu/gcc2011/Register.html > * > Abstract Submission: > * > Abstracts are now being accepted for short oral presentations. Proposals > on any topic of interest to the Galaxy community are welcome and > encouraged. The abstract submission deadline is the end of February 28. > See http://galaxy.psu.edu/gcc2011/Abstracts.html > * * > *Sponsors > * > The 2011 Galaxy Community Conference is co-sponsored by the US National > Science Foundation (NSF, http://www.nsf.gov/), and the Netherlands > Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC, http://www.nbic.nl/). NBIC is a > collaborative institute of the bioinformatics groups in the Netherlands. > Together, these groups perform cutting-edge research, develop novel tools > and support platforms, create an e-science infrastructure and educate the > next generations of bioinformaticians. > > We are looking forward to a great conference and hope to see you in the > Netherlands! > > The Galaxy and NBIC Teams > > -- > http://galaxy.psu.edu/gcc2011/ > http://getgalaxy.org > http://usegalaxy.org/ > -- http://galaxy.psu.edu/gcc2011/ http://getgalaxy.org http://usegalaxy.org/ _______________________________________________ BBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb
