From clements at nescent.org Sun Jan 2 13:49:12 2011 From: clements at nescent.org (Dave Clements) Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 10:49:12 -0800 Subject: [Open-bio-l] GMOD Spring Training Application Deadline January 7 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello all, The application deadline for the 2011 GMOD Spring Training (http://gmod.org/wiki/2011_GMOD_Spring_Training) is the end of this coming Friday, January 7. Admission is competitive, so please apply by Friday to avoid being automatically placed on the waiting list. Details are below. Thanks, and happy new year! Dave C ------- Applications are now being accepted for the 2011 GMOD Spring Training course (http://gmod.org/wiki/2011_GMOD_Spring_Training), a five-day hands-on school aimed at teaching new GMOD administrators how to install, configure and integrate popular GMOD components. The course will be held March 8-12 at the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in Durham, North Carolina, as part of GMOD Americas 2011. These components will be covered: * Apollo - genome annotation editor * Chado - biological database schema * Galaxy - analysis and data integration framework * GBrowse - genome viewer * GBrowse_syn - synteny viewer * GFF3 - genome annotation file format and tools * InterMine - biological data mining system * JBrowse - next generation genome browser * MAKER - genome annotation pipeline * Tripal - web front end to Chado databases The deadline for applying is the end of Friday, January 7, 2011. Admission is competitive and is based on the strength of the application, especially the statement of interest. The 2010 school had over 60 applicants for the 25 slots. Any application received after deadline will be automatically placed on the waiting list. The course requires some knowledge of Linux as a prerequisite. The registration fee will be $265 (only $53 per day!). There will be a limited number of scholarships available. This may be the only GMOD School offered in 2011. If you are interested, you are strongly encouraged to apply by January 7. Links: http://gmod.org/wiki/2011_GMOD_Spring_Training http://gmod.org/wiki/GMOD_Americas_2011 http://www.nescent.org/ From jprocter at compbio.dundee.ac.uk Wed Jan 5 12:58:11 2011 From: jprocter at compbio.dundee.ac.uk (Jim Procter) Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:58:11 +0000 Subject: [Open-bio-l] VIZBI 2011 call for participation - early registration deadline 31st Jan 2011 Message-ID: <4D24B133.1070900@compbio.dundee.ac.uk> We are delighted to invite you and your colleagues to register for VIZBI 2011, the 2nd workshop on 'Visualizing Biological Data', to be held at the Broad Institute, Cambridge-MA (USA), March 16-18, 2011. VIZBI 2011 brings together scientists actively using or developing computational visualization to study a diverse range of biological data. We have assembled a list of high-profile speakers (see end of email) who will review the state-of-the-art and challenges of visualization within their field. VIZBI 2011 also features an 'art & science' evening (Thursday) during which we will be joined by medical illustrators, graphic designers, and artists interested in biological visualization. On Saturday, March 19, immediately after the workshop, participants can choose to attend one of a range of tutorials and take part in a hands-on 'bring-your-own-data' session. All workshop participants are encouraged to submit a poster on their work, plus an image for the art & science evening. A limited number of participants will also be offered the opportunity to be part of an authoritative book co-authored with the VIZBI speakers, essentially an expanded version of the Nature Methods focus issue (http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v7/n3s); the book will be the first to comprehensively review this topic and will be distributed by a major scientific publisher. Please see http://vizbi.org for more information. We hope you can join us for this exciting event! We would also be grateful if you consider forwarding this call to colleagues who may be interested. The VIZBI 2011 chairs: Se?n O'Donoghue, EMBL Bang Wong, Broad Institute James Procter, U. Dundee Larry Hunter, U. Colorado VIZBI 2011 Speakers (in order of appearance): Manuel Lima Microsoft, UK. (Keynote: Visual Complexity). Robert Kuhn, UCSC, USA.. Bradley Bernstein, Harvard, USA. Erez Lieberman-Aiden, Harvard, USA. Eric Westhof, U. Strasbourg, France. John Quackenbush, Harvard, USA. Yoseph Barash, U. Toronto, Canada. Tamara Munzner U. British Columbia, Canada. (Keynote: Human-Computer Interfaces). John Westbrook, Rutgers, USA. Arthur Olson, Scripps, USA. Ga?l McGill, Harvard Medical School & Digizyme, USA. Trey Ideker, UCSD, USA. Anne-Claude Gavin, EMBL, Germany. Minoru Kanehisa, U. Kyoto, Japan. Yannis Kalaidzidis,MPI-CBG Dresden, Germany. Drew Berry, Walter & Eliza Hall, Australia. (Keynote: Communicating science, Visually). Willy Supatto, U. Paris Diderot, France. David Shattuck, UCLA, USA. Rob MacLeod,U. Utah, USA. Des Higgins, U. College Dublin, Ireland. Rod Page, U. Glasgow, UK. Herv? Tettelin, U. Maryland, USA. Martin Wattenberg & Fernada Viegas, Google, USA. (Keynote: Visual Design) VIZBI training day topics: Blender, Cytoscape, Circos, Jalview, Processing, VTK & ParaView. From clements at nescent.org Sun Jan 2 18:49:12 2011 From: clements at nescent.org (Dave Clements) Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 10:49:12 -0800 Subject: [Open-bio-l] GMOD Spring Training Application Deadline January 7 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello all, The application deadline for the 2011 GMOD Spring Training (http://gmod.org/wiki/2011_GMOD_Spring_Training) is the end of this coming Friday, January 7. Admission is competitive, so please apply by Friday to avoid being automatically placed on the waiting list. Details are below. Thanks, and happy new year! Dave C ------- Applications are now being accepted for the 2011 GMOD Spring Training course (http://gmod.org/wiki/2011_GMOD_Spring_Training), a five-day hands-on school aimed at teaching new GMOD administrators how to install, configure and integrate popular GMOD components. The course will be held March 8-12 at the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in Durham, North Carolina, as part of GMOD Americas 2011. These components will be covered: * Apollo - genome annotation editor * Chado - biological database schema * Galaxy - analysis and data integration framework * GBrowse - genome viewer * GBrowse_syn - synteny viewer * GFF3 - genome annotation file format and tools * InterMine - biological data mining system * JBrowse - next generation genome browser * MAKER - genome annotation pipeline * Tripal - web front end to Chado databases The deadline for applying is the end of Friday, January 7, 2011. Admission is competitive and is based on the strength of the application, especially the statement of interest. The 2010 school had over 60 applicants for the 25 slots. Any application received after deadline will be automatically placed on the waiting list. The course requires some knowledge of Linux as a prerequisite. The registration fee will be $265 (only $53 per day!). There will be a limited number of scholarships available. This may be the only GMOD School offered in 2011. If you are interested, you are strongly encouraged to apply by January 7. Links: http://gmod.org/wiki/2011_GMOD_Spring_Training http://gmod.org/wiki/GMOD_Americas_2011 http://www.nescent.org/ From jprocter at compbio.dundee.ac.uk Wed Jan 5 17:58:11 2011 From: jprocter at compbio.dundee.ac.uk (Jim Procter) Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:58:11 +0000 Subject: [Open-bio-l] VIZBI 2011 call for participation - early registration deadline 31st Jan 2011 Message-ID: <4D24B133.1070900@compbio.dundee.ac.uk> We are delighted to invite you and your colleagues to register for VIZBI 2011, the 2nd workshop on 'Visualizing Biological Data', to be held at the Broad Institute, Cambridge-MA (USA), March 16-18, 2011. VIZBI 2011 brings together scientists actively using or developing computational visualization to study a diverse range of biological data. We have assembled a list of high-profile speakers (see end of email) who will review the state-of-the-art and challenges of visualization within their field. VIZBI 2011 also features an 'art & science' evening (Thursday) during which we will be joined by medical illustrators, graphic designers, and artists interested in biological visualization. On Saturday, March 19, immediately after the workshop, participants can choose to attend one of a range of tutorials and take part in a hands-on 'bring-your-own-data' session. All workshop participants are encouraged to submit a poster on their work, plus an image for the art & science evening. A limited number of participants will also be offered the opportunity to be part of an authoritative book co-authored with the VIZBI speakers, essentially an expanded version of the Nature Methods focus issue (http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v7/n3s); the book will be the first to comprehensively review this topic and will be distributed by a major scientific publisher. Please see http://vizbi.org for more information. We hope you can join us for this exciting event! We would also be grateful if you consider forwarding this call to colleagues who may be interested. The VIZBI 2011 chairs: Se?n O'Donoghue, EMBL Bang Wong, Broad Institute James Procter, U. Dundee Larry Hunter, U. Colorado VIZBI 2011 Speakers (in order of appearance): Manuel Lima Microsoft, UK. (Keynote: Visual Complexity). Robert Kuhn, UCSC, USA.. Bradley Bernstein, Harvard, USA. Erez Lieberman-Aiden, Harvard, USA. Eric Westhof, U. Strasbourg, France. John Quackenbush, Harvard, USA. Yoseph Barash, U. Toronto, Canada. Tamara Munzner U. British Columbia, Canada. (Keynote: Human-Computer Interfaces). John Westbrook, Rutgers, USA. Arthur Olson, Scripps, USA. Ga?l McGill, Harvard Medical School & Digizyme, USA. Trey Ideker, UCSD, USA. Anne-Claude Gavin, EMBL, Germany. Minoru Kanehisa, U. Kyoto, Japan. Yannis Kalaidzidis,MPI-CBG Dresden, Germany. Drew Berry, Walter & Eliza Hall, Australia. (Keynote: Communicating science, Visually). Willy Supatto, U. Paris Diderot, France. David Shattuck, UCLA, USA. Rob MacLeod,U. Utah, USA. Des Higgins, U. College Dublin, Ireland. Rod Page, U. Glasgow, UK. Herv? Tettelin, U. Maryland, USA. Martin Wattenberg & Fernada Viegas, Google, USA. (Keynote: Visual Design) VIZBI training day topics: Blender, Cytoscape, Circos, Jalview, Processing, VTK & ParaView.