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_VlY5K0TQ3cI9E2NVIk443gkzK6EqP8gsr4/viewform. 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.
