2016 Galaxy Community Conference: June 25-29, Bloomington, Indiana
by Dave Clements
Hello all,
Here's the official email announcement for the 2016 Galaxy Community
Conference. Please redistribute to any of your communities that would
benefit from attending.
Also please note:
* 1. Oral presentation abstracts are due March 25.*
2. The June 2016 GMOD Meeting
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gmod-2016-community-meeting-tickets-22224544210>
will
be held immediately after GCC2016.
Thanks,
Dave C
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The *2016 Galaxy Community Conference *(*GCC2016*, *gcc2016.iu.edu
<http://gcc2016.iu.edu/>*) features two days of presentations, discussions,
poster sessions, lightning talks, computer demos, keynotes, and
birds-of-a-feather meetups, *all about data-intensive biology and the tools
that support it*. Keynote speaker Yoav Gilad
<http://genes.uchicago.edu/directory/yoav-gilad-phd/>, a professor of human
genetics at the University of Chicago, will kick-start the main conference
with a discussion on the analysis of large gene regulatory data sets.
Preconference events include data
<https://gcc2016.iu.edu/hacks/hacks-data.php> and coding
<https://gcc2016.iu.edu/hacks/hacks-coding.php> hackathons
<https://gcc2016.iu.edu/hacks/index.php>, and *two days of training*
<https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/Training+%E2%80%94+Any> in five
concurrent tracks covering 26 topics.
*GCC2016* will be held at *Indiana University* in Bloomington, Indiana,
June 25-29, 2016. Since it started seven years ago, GCC has been a
well-attended gathering of biologists, genome researchers,
bioinformaticians, and others in data-intensive biomedical research around
the world.
Galaxy <https://galaxyproject.org/> is an open, web-based platform for
data-intensive biomedical research and enables easy interactive analysis
through the web on arbitrarily large data sets. The Galaxy framework is a
major resource in achieving key research goals within the biological field.
It provides next-generation sequencing (NGS) tools and workflows for
short-read mapping, ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, metagenomics, variant analysis,
visualization, and support for Galaxy in the cloud. There are hundreds of
local installs, and *over 80 publicly accessible servers* around the world.
*Abstract submission** for oral presentations closes March 25. *Abstract
submission for posters and computer demonstrations closes May 20.
*Early registration* is now open. Registration starts at less than $45/day
for post-docs and students. Registering early assures you a place at the
conference and also a spot in the training workshops
<https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/Training+%E2%80%94+Any> you want to
attend. You can also *book conference housing* when you register. *Registration
and lodging scholarships* are available for attendees from underrepresented
groups and developing countries.
Thanks, and we hope to see you in Bloomington!
The *GCC2016 Exec*
--
http://galaxyproject.org/
http://getgalaxy.org/
http://usegalaxy.org/
https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/
6 years, 5 months
Galactic News! April Edition: GCC2016, DevOps, Hacks, events, papers, jobs, servers, hub entries, releases, tools
by Dave Clements
Hello all,
The *April Galaxy News
<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04>* brings more than
the usual amount of *News of the Galaxy*.
First, there are a plethora of events coming up around the world:
-
GCC2016 <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#GCC2016>:
-
*Oral abstracts due April 8
<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#GCC2016_Abstract_Dea...>*
-
*Scholarship applications due May 1
<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Scholarships:_Applic...>*
-
Register now and save big
<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#GCC2016_Early_Regist...>
-
Please welcome the the Indiana Health Industry Forum (IHIF)
<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Sponsors> as a
GCC2016 Sponsor
- Two events sponsored by ELIXIR (and others) are coming up, both
prominently featuring Galaxy:
-
Galaxy DevOps Workshop
<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Galaxy_DevOps_Worksh...>,
6-7 April, Heidelberg, Germany. *And there is still space.*
-
Hackathon: Tools, Workflows and Workbenches
<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Hackathon:_Tools.2C_...>,
18-20 May, Paris, France
-
There is also a report from the RADSeq Tools and Workflows Hackathon
<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Report:_IUC_Contribu...>
held
in March.
-
Plus 12 additional events
<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Upcoming_Events> on
three continents over the next three months.
A lot of *new*
-
Papers <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#New_Papers> (86
of them, 6 highlighted)
-
Open positions
<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Who.27s_Hiring> (10
of them)
-
Halogen Bonding
<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#New_Public_Galaxy_Se...>
Galaxy
server
-
Galaxy Community Hub
<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Galaxy_Community_Hubs>
entries
(4 of them)
-
Releases <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Releases>
(Planemo
<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Planemo_0.24.0>
and CloudMan
<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#CloudMan_16.03>)
-
ToolShed Contributions
<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#ToolShed_Contributions>
And some other news
<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyUpdates/2016_04#Other_News> too.
Happy April,
Dave Clements and the Galaxy Team
<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/GalaxyTeam>
--
http://galaxyproject.org/
http://getgalaxy.org/
http://usegalaxy.org/
https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/
6 years, 6 months
GCC2016 Oral Presentation Abstracts due this Friday, March 25
by Dave Clements
Hello all,
The general announcement for GCC2016 is below. Please note:
1) The oral presentation abstract deadline
<https://gcc2016.iu.edu/abstracts/index.php> is March 25, *this Friday.*
2) There are scholarships available
<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/News/GCC2016Scholarships> for students and
post-docs in historically underrepresented groups.
And, please distribute the announcement below to any groups or individuals
who might be interested,
Thanks, and hope to see you in Bloomington,
Dave C
---------------------
The *2016 Galaxy Community Conference *(*GCC2016*, *gcc2016.iu.edu
<http://gcc2016.iu.edu/>*) features two days of presentations, discussions,
poster sessions, lightning talks, computer demos, keynotes, and
birds-of-a-feather meetups, *all about data-intensive biology and the tools
that support it*. Keynote speaker Yoav Gilad
<http://genes.uchicago.edu/directory/yoav-gilad-phd/>, a professor of human
genetics at the University of Chicago, will kick-start the main conference
with a discussion on the analysis of large gene regulatory data sets.
Preconference events include data
<https://gcc2016.iu.edu/hacks/hacks-data.php> and coding
<https://gcc2016.iu.edu/hacks/hacks-coding.php> hackathons
<https://gcc2016.iu.edu/hacks/index.php>, and *two days of training*
<https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/Training+%E2%80%94+Any> in five
concurrent tracks covering 26 topics.
*GCC2016* will be held at *Indiana University* in Bloomington, Indiana,
June 25-29, 2016. Since it started seven years ago, GCC has been a
well-attended gathering of biologists, genome researchers,
bioinformaticians, and others in data-intensive biomedical research around
the world.
Galaxy <https://galaxyproject.org/> is an open, web-based platform for
data-intensive biomedical research and enables easy interactive analysis
through the web on arbitrarily large data sets. The Galaxy framework is a
major resource in achieving key research goals within the biological field.
It provides next-generation sequencing (NGS) tools and workflows for
short-read mapping, ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, metagenomics, variant analysis,
visualization, and support for Galaxy in the cloud. There are hundreds of
local installs, and *over 80 publicly accessible servers* around the world.
*Abstract submission** for oral presentations closes March 25. *Abstract
submission for posters and computer demonstrations closes May 20.
*Early registration* is now open. Registration starts at less than $45/day
for post-docs and students. Registering early assures you a place at the
conference and also a spot in the training workshops
<https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/Training+%E2%80%94+Any> you want to
attend. You can also *book conference housing* when you register. *Registration
and lodging scholarships
<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/News/GCC2016Scholarships>* are available
for attendees from underrepresented groups and developing countries.
Thanks, and we hope to see you in Bloomington!
The *GCC2016 Exec*
--
http://galaxyproject.org/
http://getgalaxy.org/
http://usegalaxy.org/
https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/
6 years, 6 months