We are pleased to announce that early registration https://gcc2017.sciencesconf.org/page/registration and abstract submission https://gcc2017.sciencesconf.org/page/submit for the 2017 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2017) https://gcc2017.sciencesconf.org/ are now open.

GCC2017 will be in Montpellier, France, 26-30 June and will feature 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. GCC2017 also includes data and coding hackathons https://gcc2017.sciencesconf.org/page/hackathon, and two days of training https://gcc2017.sched.com/overview/type/Training covering 16 different topics.

GCC2017 will be held at Le Corum Conference Centre http://www.montpellier-events.com/en/The-Corum/Presentation in the heart of Montpellier https://gcc2017.sciencesconf.org/page/location, just 10km from the Mediterranean. This event will gather several hundred researchers addressing diverse questions and facing common challenges in data intensive life science research. GCC participants work across the tree of life, come from around the world, and work at universities, research organizations, industry, medical schools and research hospitals.

If you work in or support data intensive life science research then GCC2017 is an ideal opportunity to present your work. Abstract submission https://gcc2017.sciencesconf.org/page/submit is now open. The deadline for oral presentations is Apr 15 (23:59 Paris local time), and posters and computer demonstration submission closes on May 27 (23:59 Paris local time). The Lightning talk submission deadline is June 23 (23:59 Paris time).

Early registration https://gcc2017.sciencesconf.org/page/registration is also open and starts at less than 55€ / day for post-docs and students. You can also book low cost conference housing https://gcc2017.sciencesconf.org/page/lodging when you register. (Travel fellowships will be offered by the Galaxy Community Fund and will be announced shortly.)

About Galaxy

Galaxy https://galaxyproject.org/ is an open, web-based platform for data-intensive biomedical analysis used by tens of thousands of researchers around the world. It supports ad hoc exploration and analysis through scalable and repeatable data analysis pipelines for large research studies. Galaxy is available in over 90 free and publicly accessible web servers, on commercial and national cloud infrastructures, and is locally installed at hundreds, if not thousands, of research organisations around the world.

We hope to see you this summer in Montpellier!

Au revoir,

The GCC2017 Organising Committee

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