Hello GCC2016 Participants!
There’s only one day of GCC2016 remaining. (How did that happen so fast?)
Here’s what you’ll need to know to thrive during the last 24 hours of
GCC2016.
Conference dinner
The GCC2016 conference dinner is Wednesday evening from 7-10 in the IMU
Tudor Room. We look forward to seeing you at the GCC2016 finale!
Call for ... lightning!
Send an abstract to gcc2016-sci(a)lists.galaxyproject.org by 11am today.
*Wednesday BoFs*
Here’s what’s been scheduled for Wednesday as of this writing:
1. Arts & Crafts <http://sched.co/7YbT>
Wednesday, June 28, back of Alumni Hall, 12:40-1:40pm
GCC sure can be overwhelming sometimes! This is a quiet place to do some
stress free, science related, arts and crafts.
Sign up now <http://sched.co/7YbT>.
2. *Bioinformatics education at undergraduate level <http://sched.co/7a8s>*
Wednesday, June 28, west end of Solarium, 12:40-1:40pm
What are the list of qualifications you wish to see from your incoming
graduate students?
Sign up now <http://sched.co/7a8s>.
Sponsors
Conference sponsors are key partners in the Galaxy community and are
absolutely vital in making event registration affordable. We are
highlighting different sponsors in each email.
The Globus Genomics <https://www.globus.org/genomics> solution addresses
the challenges that researchers face when dealing with NGS analysis on a
large scale. It combines state-of-the-art algorithms with sophisticated
data management tools, a powerful graphical workflow environment, and a
cloud-based elastic computational infrastructure. Globus Genomics is
software-as-a-service, delivered as a yearly subscription with the
appropriate level of resources to meet your specific needs. Globus Genomics
integrates latest Galaxy with Globus <https://www.globus.org/> data
management services and Amazon Web Services. For more details on Globus
Genomics and see if you qualify for a free pilot, please contact at
support(a)globus.org.
Thanks for a most excellent GCC and see you on Wednesday!
The GCC2016 Exec
Carrie Ganote, Chris Hemmerich, Dave Clements, Marilyne Summo, and Robert
Ping
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Hello GCC2016 Participants,
GCC2016 training is done! 31 training sessions covering the spectrum of
data intensive biology are now history (but don’t worry if you missed it,
slides and video are coming).
The opening reception is this evening and the conference starts tomorrow
morning. See below for details.
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Opening reception Monday, 7-9pm
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Conference check-in
-
Call for … lightning!
-
Monday evening and Tuesday BoFs
-
Submit a BoF now!
-
Sponsors
Welcome to Bloomington!
The GCC2016 Exec
Carrie Ganote, Chris Hemmerich, Dave Clements, Marilyne Summo, and Robert
Ping
Opening reception Monday 7-9pm
Jetstream <http://jetstream-cloud.org/>, IU's newest National Science
Foundation-funded project, and the National Center for Genome Analysis
Support <http://ncgas.org/> at IU, will sponsor a reception at the IU
CyberInfrastructure Building with local wine/beer, morsels from local
eateries, and demonstrations of the 15 million+ pixel IQ-Wall, IU's Data
Center, Science on a Sphere, and other IU-centric IT.
Meet at the sidewalk by the stop sign near the guard gate on 7th street at
the entrance to the IMU Hotel circle drive at ~6:25 and ~7:25pm or at
Wilkie North Tower circle drive at ~6:45pm or ~7:45pm for transport or have
a walk west out 10th street. See map
<https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1eC2hIqhNdnTRWVEL7fRrs2x8Qb4>
(CIB is two purple balloons on far right of map)
Please bring the your two drink tickets (inside your badge holder).
Conference check-in
If you are just arriving, please stop by the conference desk to pick up
your badge, program, and other conference materials. The conference desk
will be open these times today and tomorrow:
Mon Now–6pm, Conference Lounge, main level, IMU
6:45-9pm, CyberInfrastructure Building (during opening reception)
Tue 8am-6pm, Alumni Hall, First floor, IMU
See the online map <http://bit.ly/gcc2016map> for building locations.
Call for ... lightning!
There are two lightning talk sessions: one on Tuesday at 4:45pm, and one on
Wednesday at 4:30pm. If you wish to give a lightning talk, please send an
abstract to gcc2016-sci(a)lists.galaxyproject.org before the start of session
2 on Tuesday or the start of session 6 on Wednesday. Proposals should be
short, just like the talks. Reviewers will let you know no later than the
end of lunch on each day if the proposal has been accepted for that day.
The slides for all lightning talks will be made available online, and the
talks will be recorded and posted online for later viewing.
Monday evening & Tuesday BoFs
BoFs have started! Here’s what’s been scheduled for Monday evening and
Tuesday as of this writing:
1. GalaxyScientists Revival
<https://gcc16.sched.org/event/7YSs/galaxyscientists-revival-birds-of-a-feat…>
Monday, June 27, Oak Room, 9pm-10:30pm
GalaxyScientists represents the scientific community among Galaxy users. If
you would like to contribute to the Galaxy scientific community, please
join us.
Sign up now <http://sched.co/7UVB>.
2. Arts & Crafts <http://sched.co/7Yad>
Tuesday, June 28, back of Alumni Hall, 12:40-1:40pm
GCC sure can be overwhelming sometimes! This is a quiet place to do some
stress free, science related, arts and crafts.
Sign up now <http://sched.co/7Yad>.
3. GalaxyAdmins <http://sched.co/7KLn>
Tuesday, June 28, west end of Alumni Hall, 12:40-1:40pm
If you administer a Galaxy instance, please help shape the future direction
of this group and to set action items for the coming year.
Sign up now <http://sched.co/7KLn>.
4. Gene Annotation <http://sched.co/7Yfb>
Tuesday, June 28, southwest corner of Alumni Hall, 12:40-1:40pm
We are interested in a general discussion of Genome Annotation problems and
solutions..
Sign up now <http://sched.co/7KLn>.
See something that interests you? Plan to attend. You don’t have to
register for a BoF on sched.org to attend a BoF. Just show up. Let’s say
that again: Really, just show up.
See the complete list of BoFs
<https://gcc16.sched.org/type/E.6+Birds-of-a-feather> for what’s coming
during the rest of the week. More BoFs will be added as they are
submitted. We’ll announce them on Twitter, in the daily mails, and during
the meeting.
Call for BoFs
Birds-of-a-feather meetups (BoFs)
<https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/E.6+Birds-of-a-feather> are informal
gatherings at GCC where attendees with a shared interest meet to discuss
their interests and challenges. If you have an idea for a BoF, post it here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aikQugTW_VlY5K0TQ3cI9E2NVIk443gkzK6EqP8gsr…>.
The conference will provide space and make sure that attendees get the
word. BoFs will be added to the conference schedule website
<https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/E.6+Birds-of-a-feather> as they come
in, and BoF meeting times will be assigned in the coming weeks. Last year's
BoFs <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2015/BoFs> spanned a wide
range of topics and were highly recommended in the conference evaluations.
Let’s outdo ourselves again this year.
Sponsors
Conference sponsors <https://gcc2016.iu.edu/sponsors/index.php> are key
partners in the Galaxy community and are absolutely vital in making event
registration affordable. We are highlighting different sponsors in each
email.
Lenovo <http://lenovo.com/> is proud to be the Gold Sponsor of GCC2016 and
we look forward to seeing everyone at the IU conference center.
Brian Finley <https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-finley-105188> of Lenovo
will give a short talk <https://gcc16.sched.org/event/7Jc3/infinite-galaxy>
on technology trends in Big Data / Analytics, and several of us will be at
the conference and exhibit area.
If you would like any information from Lenovo, please feel free to send me
an email <rerdelen(a)lenovo.com> or call (734) 331-0676. Of course, please
stop by our exhibit table at the conference and say hello.
Thank you -- Bob Erdelen
Lenovo Data Center Group. x86 Servers, Networks & Storage
Information: www.lenovo.com/us Connect: www.linkedin.com/in/erdelen
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Hello GCC2016 Participants,
GCC2016 training is halfway done: We had 15 sessions today (plus 1 more
tonight), and have 15 more on Monday. The code and data hackathons
officially wind down this evening (but will continue in smaller groups
during the rest of the week).
Here’s the news to use for the next 36 hours:
-
Conference check-in
-
Training office hour
-
Dinner options tonight
-
Opening reception Monday, 7-9pm
-
Call for … lightning!
-
Monday BoFs
-
Submit a BoF now!
-
Sponsors
See you, um, here!
The GCC2016 Exec
Carrie Ganote, Chris Hemmerich, Dave Clements, Marilyne Summo, and Robert
Ping
Conference check-in
If you are just arriving, please stop by the conference desk to pick up
your badge, program, and other conference materials. You’ll need that badge
to attend GCC2016 The conference desk will be open these times today and
tomorrow:
Sun 8am–9pm, Conference Room, main level, IMU
Mon 8am–6pm, Conference Room, main level, IMU
6:45-9pm, CyberInfrastructure Building (during opening reception
See the online map <http://bit.ly/gcc2016map> for building locations.
Training: Office hour
To help people get set up in advance, there will be a training office hour
session tonight. Drop by if you require help installing and configuring
required software, or just to check that everything is working. The
training office hour tonight is:
Sunday, 8:30–9:30pm, Hoosier Room, main level of the IMU.
Our goal is to have everyone ready to go when the first training session
starts each morning. And, if you are VM, VirtualBox, Docker, or generally
systems proficient, think about stopping by and lending a hand.
Dinner options tonight
You are on your own for dinner this evening (Sunday). See the bottom of
the conference location page <https://gcc2016.iu.edu/location/index.php>
for links to nearby options. Or, if you just want to wander, see the online
map <http://bit.ly/gcc2016map> for restaurant-enriched neighborhoods.
Fourth street from Indiana Avenue to Walnut St. and Fifth Street (Kirkwood
Avenue) from Indiana Avenue to Rogers St. both have an array of amazing
options. The square downtown is a great find as well.
Lunch on Monday
Will be in the IMU East Lounge. This will get people through the lunch
lines much quicker than today.
Opening reception Monday 7-9pm
Jetstream <http://jetstream-cloud.org/>, IU's newest National Science
Foundation-funded project, and the National Center for Genome Analysis
Support <http://ncgas.org/> at IU, will sponsor a reception at the IU
CyberInfrastructure Building with local wine/beer, morsels from local
eateries, and demonstrations of the 15 million+ pixel IQ-Wall, IU's Data
Center, Science on a Sphere, and other IU-centric IT.
Meet at the sidewalk by the stop sign near the guard gate on 7th street at
the entrance to the IMU Hotel circle drive at ~6:25 and ~7:25pm or at
Wilkie North Tower circle drive at ~6:45pm or ~7:45pm for transport or have
a walk west out 10th street. See map
<https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1eC2hIqhNdnTRWVEL7fRrs2x8Qb4>
(CIB is two purple balloons on far right of map)
Please bring the your two drink tickets (inside your badge holder).
Call for ... lightning!
There are two lightning talk sessions: one on Tuesday at 4:45pm, and one on
Wednesday at 4:30pm. If you wish to give a lightning talk, please send an
abstract to gcc2016-sci(a)lists.galaxyproject.org before the start of session
2 on Tuesday or the start of session 6 on Wednesday. Proposals should be
short, just like the talks. Reviewers will let you know no later than the
end of lunch on each day if the proposal has been accepted for that day.
The slides for all lightning talks will be made available online, and the
talks will be recorded and posted online for later viewing.
Monday BoFs
BoFs start tomorrow! Here’s what’s been scheduled for Monday as of this
writing:
1. European Galaxy developer school <http://sched.co/7Vi5>
Monday, June 27, IMU Oak Room, 11:30am-12:30pm
What should be covered in a developer school being held in January 2017, in
Strasbourg (France).
Sign up now <http://sched.co/7Vi5>.
2. Application containers for the win! <http://sched.co/7UVB>
Monday, June 27, IMU, Walnut Room, 11:30am-12:30pm
Application portability conundrum of Galactic proportions.
Sign up now <http://sched.co/7UVB>.
3. GalaxyScientists Revival
<https://gcc16.sched.org/event/7YSs/galaxyscientists-revival-birds-of-a-feat…>
(Newly added)
Monday, June 27, Oak Room, 9pm-10:30pm
GalaxyScientists represents the scientific community among Galaxy users. If
you would like to contribute to the Galaxy scientific community, please
join us.
Sign up now <http://sched.co/7UVB>.
See something that interests you? Plan to attend. You don’t have to
register for a BoF on sched.org to attend a BoF. Just show up. Let’s say
that again: Really, just show up.
See the complete list of BoFs
<https://gcc16.sched.org/type/E.6+Birds-of-a-feather> for what’s coming
during the rest of the week. More BoFs will be added as they are
submitted. We’ll announce them on Twitter, in the daily mails, and during
the meeting.
Submit a BoF now!
Submit your BoF here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aikQugTW_VlY5K0TQ3cI9E2NVIk443gkzK6EqP8gsr…>,
right now. Birds-of-a-feather meetups (BoFs)
<https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/E.6+Birds-of-a-feather> are informal
gatherings at GCC where attendees with a shared interest meet to discuss
their interests and challenges. If you have an idea for a BoF, post it here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aikQugTW_VlY5K0TQ3cI9E2NVIk443gkzK6EqP8gsr…>.
There is ample space for more BoFs throughout the rest of the conference.
Sponsors
Conference sponsors <https://gcc2016.iu.edu/sponsors/index.php> are key
partners in the Galaxy community and are absolutely vital in making event
registration affordable. We are highlighting different sponsors in each
email.
DDN <http://www.ddn.com/> is the leading provider of high-performance
storage solutions, including parallel file systems for fast analytics, as
well as cloud solutions for secure collaborative research and active
archival. By delivering a single, end-to-end platform for the entire
research data lifecycle, DDN solutions are proven to reduce time to
discovery in the most demanding environments. For variant calling
workflows, for instance, our customers are seeing an order of magnitude
better throughput than on traditional NAS storage. As a result, DDN
customers include over a third of top sequencing centers, and a growing
number of clinical research and pharmaceutical companies as well. Stop by
the DDN booth to meet with their experts and learn more!
*BIOTEAM APPLIANCE GALAXY EDITION: GALAXY MADE EASY*
The *BioTeam Appliance Galaxy Edition*
<http://www.bioteam.net/products/galaxy-appliance/> is a push-button
solution that let’s researchers get up and running quickly with Galaxy.
The Galaxy Appliance comes preinstalled with a production instance of
Galaxy, bioinformatics tools, and reference datasets. This powerful system
is specifically configured for computationally intensive scientific
workloads. The Galaxy Appliance also provides researchers with the
flexibility to install additional applications they need, independent of
Galaxy, in order to effectively conduct their research on one central
system. BioTeam provides ongoing support for the Galaxy Appliance, enabling
researchers to minimize their IT burden. The Galaxy Appliance is used by
researchers around the world for metagenomic, ChIP-Seq, RNA-Seq analysis
and more. Contact tom(a)bioteam.net
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Hello GCC2016 Participants,
GCC2016 has started! The code and data hackathons kicked off this morning,
each with a record number of participants. Things expand even further
tomorrow–the first day of training. Here are the relevant bits for the next
day or so:
- Conference check-in
- Training office hours
- Call for ... lightning!
- Submit a BoF now!
- Announced BoFs
- Training and meeting to be streamed!
- Sponsors
- Training: Required software
- Lodging check-in
Welcome to Bloomington!
The GCC2016 Exec
Carrie Ganote, Chris Hemmerich, Dave Clements, Marilyne Summo, and Robert
Ping
*Conference check-in*
If you are just arriving, please stop by the conference desk to pick up
your badge, program, and other conference materials. You’ll need that badge
to attend GCC2016 events. Over the weekend, the conference desk will be
open:
Saturday, 9am–9pm, Lobby, Wells Library <http://sched.co/72a8>
Sunday, 8am–9pm, Conference Room, main level, IMU <http://sched.co/72Zd>
See the online map <http://bit.ly/gcc2016map> for building locations.
*Training: Office hours*
*Note: Tonight’s training office hours <http://sched.co/5Yax> have been
moved to the Wells Library.*
To help people get set up in advance, there will be a training office hour
session the night before each day of training. Drop by if you require help
installing and configuring required software, or just to check that
everything is working. The two training office hours sessions will be
Saturday, 7–10pm, *Wells Library* <http://sched.co/5Yax>
Sunday, 8:30–9:30pm, Hoosier Room, main level of the IMU
<http://sched.co/5Yan>
Our goal is to have everyone ready to go when the first training session
starts each morning. And, if you are VM, VirtualBox, Docker, or generally
systems proficient, think about stopping by and lending a hand.
*Call for ... lightning!*
Lightning talks are a highlight of every GCC, and this year we’ve allocated
more time for them at GCC2016 than ever before. Lightning talks are short,
sharp talks about something you’ve been working on, a resource, a question,
or anything else of interest to GCC2016 participants. Talks are 7 minutes
long with 5 minutes for presentation and 2 minutes for Q&A.
There are two lightning talk sessions: one on Tuesday at 4:45pm, and one on
Wednesday at 4:30pm. *If you wish to give a lightning talk, please send an
abstract to gcc2016-sci(a)lists.galaxyproject.org
<gcc2016-sci(a)lists.galaxyproject.org> before the start of session 2 on
Tuesday or the start of session 6 on Wednesday.*
Proposals should be short, just like the talks. Reviewers will let you
know no later than the end of lunch on each day if the proposal has been
accepted for that day. The slides for all lightning talks will be made
available online, and the talks will be recorded and posted online for
later viewing.
*Submit a BoF now!*
Got an idea for a birds-of-a-feather? Submit your BoF here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aikQugTW_VlY5K0TQ3cI9E2NVIk443gkzK6EqP8gsr…>,
right now. Birds-of-a-feather meetups (BoFs)
<https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/E.6+Birds-of-a-feather> are informal
gatherings at GCC where attendees with a shared interest meet to discuss
their interests and challenges. There is ample space for more BoFs
throughout the rest of the conference.
*Announced BoFs*
1. European Galaxy developer school <http://sched.co/7Vi5>
Monday, June 27, 11:30am-12:30pm
What should be covered in a developer school being held in January 2017, in
Strasbourg (France).
Sign up now <http://sched.co/7Vi5>.
2. Application containers for the win! <http://sched.co/7UVB>
Monday, June 27, 11:30am-12:30pm
Application portability conundrum of Galactic proportions.
Sign up now <http://sched.co/7UVB>.
3. GalaxyAdmins <http://sched.co/7KLn>
Tuesday, June 28, 12:40pm-1:40pm
The GalaxyAdmins community
<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Community/GalaxyAdmins> meets in person
Sign up now <http://sched.co/7KLn>.
*Training and meeting to be streamed!*
GCC talks have often been recorded and then posted online afterward. We’ll
do that again this year, but Indiana University is making it possible to go
one step further: All GCC2016 training sessions and conference talks will
be streamed live during the events. Know someone who couldn’t make it? URLs
for streaming are in the conference FAQ
<https://gcc2016.iu.edu/faq/index.php>.
*Sponsors*
Conference sponsors <https://gcc2016.iu.edu/sponsors/index.php> are key
partners in the Galaxy community and are absolutely vital in making event
registration affordable. We are highlighting different sponsors in each
email.
Indiana University is home to the *IU Pervasive Technology Institute*
<https://pti.iu.edu/>, platinum sponsor of GCC2016. IU PTI seeks to improve
the quality of life in the state of Indiana and the world through novel
research and innovation and service delivery in the broad domain of
information technology and informatics. Affiliate partners of PTI include:
- Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research <https://cacr.iu.edu/>,
providing the nation with leadership in applied cybersecurity technology,
education, and policy.
- Data to Insight Center <http://d2i.indiana.edu/>, focusing on data
management, big data, data and text analytics, advanced
cyberinfrastructure, tools for automated metadata and provenance capture,
and the management and preservation of scientific data.
- Digital Science Center <http://www.dsc.soic.indiana.edu/>, exploring
new applications related to the most cutting-edge grid and cloud
technologies and working to define some of the most powerful new
computational techniques available.
- Research Technologies <https://rt.uits.iu.edu/index.php>, developing,
delivering, and supporting advanced technology solutions that improve
productivity of and enable new possibilities in research, scholarly
endeavors, and creative activity at Indiana University and beyond.
National Science Foundation-funded partners of IU PTI include:
- National Center for Genome Analysis Support, enabling the U.S.
biological research community to analyze, understand, and make use of the
vast amount of genomic information now available.
- Jetstream <http://jetstream-cloud.org/>, a cloud system on which you
can run Galaxy.
IU PTI also acknowledges the leadership and research capabilities of two
entities at IU who have helped in the planning of GCC2016 and who work with
IU PTI:
- Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics
<https://cgb.indiana.edu/about/index.html>, a service facility that
provides IU faculty access to genome technologies and bioinformatics
support.
- IU Bioinformatics
<http://www.soic.indiana.edu/graduate/degrees/informatics/bioinformatics/ind…>
program. IU’s School of Informatics and Computing offers an extensive
graduate program, combining several disciplines and using massive amounts
of data.
On behalf of IU PTI and all our affiliates and partners, we welcome you to
Bloomington, Indiana. Please reach out to us by contacting pti(a)iu.edu or
visiting our website for more information: pti.iu.edu
*GenomeWeb* <https://www.genomeweb.com/> is a proud sponsor of the 2016
Galaxy Community Conference. Did you know that academic and non-profit
researchers have free access to GenomeWeb’s premium news? Just register
with your .edu, .org, .gov, or equivalent email address and you’ll have
access to the entire site! Premium subscribers can opt into our weekly
topical news bulletins, including our weekly roundup of informatics news.
Register at www.genomeweb.com/user/register or email
customerservice(a)genomeweb.com with any questions.
*Training: Required software*
*See Thursday’s email.*
And, all the VMs we know about are now located on Jetstream
<http://jetstream-iu0.galaxyproject.org/planemo/>, here at IU. Feel free
to download them from there, especially if you are already in Bloomington
*Lodging check-in*
*See Thursday’s email.*
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Hello GCC2016 Participants!
This email contains what you need to know between now and the start of
GCC2016 events this weekend:
- Conference check-in
- Getting to Bloomington
- Lodging check-in
- Training: Required software
- Training: Office hours
- Call for BoFs
- Announced BoFs
- Hackathons
- Sponsors
See you in Bloomington!
The GCC2016 Exec
Carrie Ganote, Chris Hemmerich, Dave Clements, Marilyne Summo, and Robert
Ping
*Before you leave*
Be prepared and pack for temperatures as high as 92F (33C) and as low as
58F (14C). Expect a mix of sunshine and rain in the next week.
*Getting to Bloomington*If you are flying into Indianapolis International
Airport, there are two shuttle companies that provide transport to
Bloomington:
1. GO Express Travel
<http://goexpresstravel.com/airport_shuttle_schedule#schedule>
This service stops at the IMU and the Wilkie Residence Hall. The last
shuttle leaves the airport at 10:40pm.
2. Star of America Shuttle
<http://www.soashuttle.com/locations/bloomington-to-indianapolis/>
This service stops at the IMU. If you are staying at the Wilkie Residence
Hall, the closest stop is Read Hall. The last shuttle leaves the airport at
10:20pm.
See the online map <http://bit.ly/gcc2016map> for building locations.
*Conference check-in*
Please stop by the conference desk to pick up your badge, program, and
other conference materials. You’ll need that badge to attend GCC2016
events. The conference desk will be open at these times:
Fri 6–9:00pm, East Lounge, main level, Indiana Memorial Union (IMU)
Sat 9am–9pm, Lobby, Wells Library
Sun 8am–9pm, Conference Room, main level, IMU
Mon 8am–6pm, Conference Room, main level, IMU
6:45–9pm, Lobby, Cyberinfrastructure Building, during opening
reception
Tue 8am–6pm, Alumni Hall, first floor, IMU
Wed 8am–6pm, Alumni Hall, first floor, IMU
See the online map <http://bit.ly/gcc2016map> for building locations.
*Lodging check-in*
The Indiana Memorial Union Biddle Hotel and Conference Center desk is open
24 hours. The Wilkie Residence Hall center desk is located in the North
Building and is open 8am–midnight on weekdays and 10am–midnight on
weekends. If you arrive after hours, please push the black button on the
phone outside the residence hall. Punch in 6-4804 (will be posted by the
phone) and the staff member on duty will come right down to help.
Upon check-in at either facility, you will receive a welcome letter that
includes the conference/registration desk schedule and a few other details.
For those arriving before Saturday, see the special Friday conference desk
hours above, they are not listed in your welcome letter.
Parking is free at both the IMU (in designated parking lots) and at Wilkie
in designated parking lots (request a parking pass for CH spots at the
Wilkie center desk).
*Be kind to your fellow attendees:*
If you are staying at the IMU and don’t have a car, please ask for a
parking permit anyway. Bring this permit with you to the conference
check-in desk. We’ll offer the permits up to attendees who need parking but
aren’t staying at the IMU.
*Training: Required software*
GCC2016 training
<https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/D.1+Training+-+Using> starts on
Sunday and continues on Monday. There are 31 sessions offered over the two
days. See your registration confirmation email for the training sessions
you signed up for. Many of the training sessions require specific software
installed on your laptop to fully participate in them.
*Practically every session requires a Wi-Fi enabled laptop with either
Chrome <https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/> or Firefox
<https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/> installed.* If you don’t have
either of these web browsers installed, please install at least one of them
before training starts.
These Deploy and Develop sessions
<https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/D.3+Training+-+Deploy+%26+Develop>
require that you have a running copy of the conference virtual machine (VM)
<https://images.galaxyproject.org/planemo/latest.ova>:
- Writing and publishing Galaxy tools <http://sched.co/5Y5Z>
- Introduction to Galaxy interactive environments <http://sched.co/5Y5e>
- Advanced topics in Galaxy tool development <http://sched.co/5Yg5>
- Advanced topics in Galaxy interactive environments
<http://sched.co/5Yvk>
- Scripting Galaxy using the API and BioBlend <http://sched.co/5Yzl>
- BioinforMagic: Marrying Galaxy and Bioconductor <http://sched.co/5VsB>
If you are participating in any of these sessions, please follow these
directions
<http://planemo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/appliance.html#launching-the-applia…>
to download and install the VM in VirtualBox
<http://planemo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/appliance.html#launching-the-applia…>.
If you don’t already have VirtualBox on your laptop, you will need to
install that too. *Note that the VM is large (over 3GB). We encourage you
to download the image <https://images.galaxyproject.org/planemo/latest.ova>
before leaving for the conference, if at all possible.*
A few other sessions also require some installed software. The instructors
for these sessions will contact participants directly.
*Training: Office hours*
To help people get set up in advance, there will be a training office hour
session the night before each day of training. Drop by if you want help
installing and configuring required software, or just to check that
everything is working. The two training office hours sessions will be
Saturday, 7–10pm
Sunday, 8:30–9:30pm
Both sessions will be in the Hoosier room on the main level of the IMU,
which is just down the hall from where the training sessions will be held
the following day. Our goal is to have everyone ready to go when the first
training session starts each morning. And, if you are VM, VirtualBox,
Docker, or generally systems proficient, think about stopping by and
lending a hand.
*Call for BoFs*
Birds-of-a-feather (BoF) meetups
<https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/E.6+Birds-of-a-feather> are informal
gatherings at GCC where attendees with a shared interest meet to discuss
their interests and challenges. *If you have an idea for a BoF, post it
here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aikQugTW_VlY5K0TQ3cI9E2NVIk443gkzK6EqP8gsr…>*.
The conference will provide space and make sure that attendees get the
word. BoFs will be added to the conference schedule website
<https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/E.6+Birds-of-a-feather> as they come
in, and BoF meeting times will be assigned in the coming weeks. Last year's
BoFs spanned a wide range of topics and were highly recommended in the
conference evaluations. Let’s outdo ourselves again this year.
*Announced BoFs*
Three BoFs have already been added to the conference. Locations and times
for these three will be set before training starts on Sunday.
1. European Galaxy developer school <http://sched.co/7Vi5>
TBA
A developer school is planned to open in January 2017, in Strasbourg
(France), organized by Elixir (European bioinformatics HUB) and the French
Institute of Bioinformatics (the Elixir French national node). This BoF is
a discussion on which training modules to propose.
Sign up now <http://sched.co/7Vi5>.
2. Application containers for the win! <http://sched.co/7UVB>
Monday, June 27, 11:30am-12:30pm
*Application portability conundrum of Galactic proportions.*
Using application containers for portability, especially overcoming
Toolshed build issues.
The wonderful, but checkered history of Toolshed distribution of galaxy
tools has had its share of delights and frustrations, the latter often
attributed to Linux distribution issues, but nevertheless big time sinks.
While a lot of work in the Galaxy ecosystem is being done towards
Dockerizing everything some sites have no opportunity to run Docker. Let's
talk about some other possibilities focused on the application portability
to try to make toolshed tool distribution as painless as possible.
Sign up now <http://sched.co/7UVB>.
3. GalaxyAdmins <http://sched.co/7KLn>
Tuesday, June 28, 12:40pm-1:40pm
The GalaxyAdmins community
<https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Community/GalaxyAdmins> meets in person
every year at GCC and online every other month during the rest of the year.
If you administer a Galaxy instance, please help shape the future direction
of the group and to set action items for the coming year.
Sign up now <http://sched.co/7KLn>.
*Hackathons*
Coding and data hackathons <https://gcc2016.iu.edu/hacks/index.php> start
on Saturday morning. Hackathon organizers will be in direct contact with
you on Saturday and Sunday morning to let you know what to do in
preparation for these events.
*Sponsors*
Conference sponsors <https://gcc2016.iu.edu/sponsors/index.php> are key
partners in the Galaxy community and are absolutely vital in making event
registration affordable. In acknowledgement, we are highlighting different
sponsors in each email.
*Developing versatile storage solutions for Life Sciences*
*EMC*’s Emerging Technologies Division (ETD) is a global leader and trusted
partner in Life Science storage solutions. We deliver powerful yet
versatile solutions for healthcare and Life Science organizations that want
to efficiently manage clinical and genomics data.
EMC storage solutions are simple to install, manage, and scale, at any
size, across the R&D data lifecycle. As a leader and trusted partner of
Life Science organizations worldwide, EMC storage solutions provide the
security, ease of management, resilience, and scalability needed to manage
Life Science workflows today and in the future.
For more information, please visit our Life Sciences information page
<http://www.emergingtechsolutions.com/life-science>.
The *Bloomington Life Sciences Partnership (BLSP)
<http://www.bloomingtonedc.com/>* is an economic development initiative
that is part of a larger effort to attract innovation, cultivate
entrepreneurship, and support business growth in the greater Bloomington
region. The BLSP program, part of the Bloomington Economic Development
Corporation (BEDC), is a non-profit initiative dedicated to improving the
economic vitality of the region and fostering creativity, job growth, and
better opportunities for all. If you have a startup idea, own a business,
or are interested in supporting the growth of these things in Bloomington,
please visit www.bloomingtonedc.com or call (812) 340-9058 to see how we
can help.
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Hello everyone,
GCC2016 events <https://gcc16.sched.org/> start in just over one week.
Here’s some last-minute info you’ll need to make the most out of GCC2016:
- Training preparation
- Call for BoFs
- Lightning talks
- Submit a poster
- Sponsors
- GMOD 2016
GCC2016 is promising to be great one!
Looking forward to seeing you in Bloomington,
The GCC2016 Exec
Carrie Ganote, Chris Hemmerich, Dave Clements, Marilyne Summo, and Robert
Ping
*Training preparation*
Attending GCC2016 training? All sessions
<https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/D.x+Training+-+All> list
prerequisites, and any laptop or software requirements. Almost all
sessions require a Wi-Fi enabled laptop with either Chrome, Firefox, or
Safari installed. For the use
<https://gcc16.sched.org/type/D.1+Training+-+Using> and general
<https://gcc16.sched.org/type/D.2+Training+-+General> training sessions all
you’ll need is that laptop.
For some of the deploy and develop sessions
<https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/D.3+Training+-+Deploy+%26+Develop>
you’ll need to have additional software installed ahead of time. Most
often this will be virtual machines or Docker images. We will provide
specific details on what is required and where to get the machine images
and any needed software in the coming week. We’ll also provide help with
installation and setup at two training office hours sessions
<https://gcc16.sched.org/type/A.+Help> on Saturday and Sunday evening.
(And if you would like to help during those sessions, please let the exec
committee know.)
*Call for BoFs*
We still have lots of space for birds-of-a-feather meetups (BoFs)
<https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/E.6+Birds-of-a-feather>. These are
informal meetups where attendees with a shared interest meet to discuss
their interests and challenges. *If you have an idea for a BoF topic, post
it here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aikQugTW_VlY5K0TQ3cI9E2NVIk443gkzK6EqP8gsr…>*.
BoFs are a terrific way to find others and discuss common challenges. See
the list of BoFs for what gatherings have already been established.
*Lightning talks*
Lightning talks are a dynamic part of every GCC and this year’s conference
will feature more lightning talks than ever before. Lightning talks are
short (7 minutes long) and can be about anything of interest to conference
participants: prototype ideas, useful resources, open questions,
interesting communities, novel approaches to challenges, and anything else
you can think of. The call for lightning talks will go out once GCC2016
events have started. Please start thinking about what you would like to
present!
*Submit a poster*
Have a poster presentation idea? There are still a few spaces left
<http://bit.ly/gcc2016abssub> for additional posters
<https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/E.2+Conference+-+Posters>. All
accepted presentations are eligible for consideration for publication
in *GigaScience's
<http://gigascience.biomedcentral.com/>* Galaxy series
<http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/series/Galaxy>. Published papers will
receive a 15% discount on the article-processing fee
<https://gigascience.biomedcentral.com/submission-guidelines/fees-and-funding>
if you flag GCC2016 on submission. Submit your poster *now*
<http://bit.ly/gcc2016abssub>.
*Sponsors*
Conference sponsors <https://gcc2016.iu.edu/sponsors/index.php> are key
partners in the Galaxy community and are absolutely vital in making event
registration affordable. We’ll highlight different sponsors in emails over
the coming month. We’re also still looking for additional meeting sponsors
<https://gcc2016.iu.edu/sponsors/index.php>, so please let us know of any
organizations that may be a good fit.
The rapid innovation in genome sequencing technology is generating data
faster than costs declines in data storage, with petabyte-scale being the
new norm in data intensive biomedical research. Chris Dagdigian of BioTeam
has stated "corresponding advances need to be made with respect to data
storage, and object storage is a transformative force-multiplier in the
field of life sciences.” *SwiftStack <https://www.swiftstack.com/>* is
happy to be a sponsor of GCC and to discuss how object storage can provide
a cost structure that aligns with research while also allowing use of
arbitrary tags and metadata to advance discoverability and leverage of data
in research.
*GMOD 2016*There is still space to register for the GMOD 2016 Community
Meeting
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gmod-2016-community-meeting-tickets-22224544210>
being held at Indiana University immediately after GCC2016. GMOD
<http://gmod.org/> is a consortium of open-source software projects
(including Galaxy) that address common challenges with organizing,
visualizing, annotating, and analyzing biological data. Registration
<https://gmod2016.eventbrite.com/> is $110 for both days, with the same
housing options as for GCC2016. For those who would like to present a talk
or poster at GMOD, the meeting registration form includes a section for
submitting the presentation title and abstract.
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Dear GCC2016 participants,
Welcome to the Galaxy Community Conference 2016 conference-wide email list.
We’ll use this list to communicate useful conference information to all
attendees. Emails will go out once a week until GCC2016 nears, and then
once a day just before and during the conference. This email highlights:
- Conference resources
- Opening reception
- Poster submission
- Call for BoFs
- Sponsors
- GMOD 2016
GCC2016 is offering more this year than ever: 31 training sessions covering
27 topics, presented by 34 expert instructors, a new opening reception, two
hackathons, lots of posters and accepted talks, and a new computer
visualization and software demo track.
We look forward to seeing you in Bloomington in less than 3 weeks!
The GCC2016 Exec
Carrie Ganote, Chris Hemmerich, Dave Clements, Marilyne Summo, and Robert
Ping
*#usegalaxy*
*Conference resources*
*gcc16.sched.org <http://gcc16.sched.org/>*
Here you’ll find the full conference schedule, as well as information on
all conference events, instructors, speakers, presenters, and abstracts. If
you don’t already have a login, you can create one and then build your
schedule online. There is even a mobile site
<https://gcc16.sched.org/mobile/> you can use to navigate with from your
phone.
*gcc2016.iu.edu <http://gcc2016.iu.edu/>*
The conference website has information on local logistics
<https://gcc2016.iu.edu/location/index.php>, hackathons
<https://gcc2016.iu.edu/hacks/index.php>, sponsors
<https://gcc2016.iu.edu/sponsors/index.php>, organizers
<https://gcc2016.iu.edu/organizers/index.php>, and a list offrequently
asked questions <https://gcc2016.iu.edu/faq/index.php> as well.
*Mailing lists*
This list will be used for conference-wide communication. There are also
lists for hackathon participants, speakers, and poster and demo presenters.
If you aren’t on a list that you think you should be on, please contact the
exec team.
*Training office hours*
This year a training help desk will be open the evening before each day of
training. Participants can find help here with initial setup.
*Opening reception*
Jetstream <http://jetstream-cloud.org/>, IU's newest National Science
Foundation-funded project (of which Galaxy is a partner), and theNational
Center for Genome Analysis Support <http://ncgas.org/> at IU are sponsoring
an opening reception <http://sched.co/72bN> on Monday evening at the
Cyberinfrastructure Building. The first-ever GCC opening reception will
feature local wine/beer, morsels from local eateries, and demonstrations on
the 15 million+ pixel IQ-Wall, IU's Data Center, Science on a Sphere, and
other IU-centric IT. Make plans now to attend.
*Submit a poster*
Have a poster presentation idea? There are still a few spaces left
<https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/E.2+Conference+-+Posters> for
additional posters <http://bit.ly/gcc2016abssub>. All accepted
presentations are eligible for consideration for publication in *GigaScience's
<http://gigascience.biomedcentral.com/>* Galaxy series
<http://www.gigasciencejournal.com/series/Galaxy>. Published papers will
receive a 15% discount on the article-processing fee
<https://gigascience.biomedcentral.com/submission-guidelines/fees-and-funding>
if
you flag GCC2016 on submission.
*Call for BoFs*Birds-of-a-feather meetups (BoFs)
<https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/E.6+Birds-of-a-feather> are informal
gatherings at GCC where attendees with a shared interest meet to discuss
their interests and challenges. If you have an idea for a BoF, post it here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aikQugTW_VlY5K0TQ3cI9E2NVIk443gkzK6EqP8gsr…>.
The conference will provide space and make sure that attendees get the
word. BoFs will be added to the conference schedule website
<https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/E.6+Birds-of-a-feather> as they come
in, and BoF meeting times will be assigned in the coming weeks. Last year's
BoFs <https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2015/BoFs> spanned a wide
range of topics and were highly recommended in the conference evaluations.
Let’s outdo ourselves again this year.
*Sponsors*
Conference sponsors are key partners in the Galaxy community and are
absolutely vital in making event registration affordable. We’ll highlight
different sponsors in emails over the coming month. We’re also still
looking for additional meeting sponsors
<https://gcc2016.iu.edu/sponsors/index.php>, so please let us know of any
organizations that may be a good fit.
[image: GigaScience]
*GigaScience <http://gigascience.biomedcentral.com/>* aims to revolutionize
data dissemination, organization, understanding, and use to facilitate the
reproducibility of science. As an online, open-access, and open-data
journal, we publish all research objects (open data, tools, workflows, and
pipelines) from big data studies from the entire spectrum of life and
biomedical sciences. The journal links standard manuscript publication with
an extensive database that hosts all associated data, providing data
analysis tools and cloud-computing resources. GigaDB
<http://gigadb.org/site/index> provides a direct link between the published
manuscript and the relevant supporting data. Coupled with this we have also
built GigaGalaxy <http://gigagalaxy.net/>, a Galaxy-based data analysis
platform to host computational methods and workflows, maximizing use of the
data, tools, and workflows in our papers in a more accessible and
reproducible environment.
*GMOD 2016*The GMOD 2016 Community Meeting
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gmod-2016-community-meeting-tickets-22224544210>
will
be held at Indiana University immediately after GCC2016. GMOD
<http://gmod.org/> is a consortium of open-source software projects
(including Galaxy) that address common challenges with organizing,
visualizing, annotating, and analyzing biological data. GMOD meetings
<http://gmod.org/wiki/Meetings> are a mix of user and developer
presentations. They’re a great place to find out what is happening in the
project, what's coming up, and what others are doing.
Registration <https://gmod2016.eventbrite.com/> is still open at $110 for
both days. For those who would like to present a talk or poster, the
meeting registration form includes a section for submitting the
presentation title and abstract.
Galaxy is a part of the GMOD project and there are several presentations at
GCC2016 that cover Galaxy integration with other GMOD components, including
*Apollo* <https://gcc16.sched.org/?s=apollo> for genome annotation,
*JBrowse* <https://gcc16.sched.org/?s=jbrowse> for genome visualization,
and *Chado and Tripal* <https://gcc16.sched.org/?s=chado> for online
biological databases.
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