From clements at galaxyproject.org Mon May 14 16:57:19 2012 From: clements at galaxyproject.org (Dave Clements) Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 13:57:19 -0700 Subject: [Open-bio-l] 2012 Galaxy Community Conference Message-ID: Hello all, We are pleased to announce that early registration for the 2012 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2012, http://galaxyproject.org/GCC2012) is now open. GCC2012 will be held July 25-27, at the UIC Forum, in Chicago, Illinois. The conference will feature two full days of presentations, discussions, lightning talks, and breakouts. We have also added a new full day of training this year, featuring 3 parallel tracks with four workshops each, covering seven to twelve different topics (please vote on topics by Friday May 18: http://bit.ly/GCC2012TDSurvey). The Galaxy Community Conference is for: * Sequencing core facility staff * Bioinformatics core staff * Bioinformatics tool and workflow developers * Bioinformatics focused principal investigators and researchers * Data producers * Power bioinformatics users This event is about integrating, analyzing, and sharing the diverse and very large datasets that are now typical in biomedical research. GCC2012 is an opportunity to share best practices with, and learn from, a large community of researchers and support staff who are facing the challenges of data-intensive biology. Galaxy is an open web-based platform for data intensive biomedical research (http://galaxyproject.org) that is widely used and deployed at research organizations of all sizes and around the world. Registration is very affordable, especially for post-docs and students. *You can can save 36% to 42% by registering on or before June 11*. Conference lodging can also be booked. Low-cost rooms have been reserved on the UIC campus. You can also stay at the official conference hotel, at a substantial discount. There are a limited rooms available in both, and you are encouraged to register early. Thanks, and hope to see you in Chicago! Dave Clements, on behalf of the GCC2012 Organizing Committee PS: Please help get the word out. A flyer and graphics are at http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Events/GCC2012/Promotion. -- http://galaxyproject.org/GCC2012 http://galaxyproject.org/ http://getgalaxy.org/ http://usegalaxy.org/ http://galaxyproject.org/wiki/ From francesco.strozzi at gmail.com Thu May 31 05:11:25 2012 From: francesco.strozzi at gmail.com (Francesco Strozzi) Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 11:11:25 +0200 Subject: [Open-bio-l] EU Codefest 2012 Announcement Message-ID: The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) EU-CodeFest will be held in Parco Tecnologico Padano (PTP) Lodi, Italy on the19th ? 20th of July. The CodeFest is a small focused event under the auspices of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and is a sister event of BOSC2012 being held in California USA this year. Three main topics will be worked on during the CodeFest: - NGS and high performance parsers for OpenBio projects. - RDF and semantic web for bioinformatics. - Bioinformatics pipelines definition, execution and distribution. The number of places is limited to 30 participants at maximum, on a first come, first serve basis. Undergraduate and PhD students are welcome to participate. The cost of the event is EUR 100 per person, which includes also lunches, coffee breaks and the social dinner on the 19th of July. Only for students, we can sponsor a limited number of attendees that will not pay for the registration fee. Those students, willing to participate for free to the event, will be asked to submit their qualifications and experience in software development. The organizing committee will review students? applications before final acceptance. Talks and abstracts may be presented during the CodeFest in sessions of 10 minutes plus questions. Coding activities will continue during the talks. The City of Lodi is very close to Milano and has good hotel facilities. The connections by air are excellent, via Milano Malpensa, Milano Linate and Bergamo Orio Al Serio airports. Please register soon using the form at this page http://tecnoparco.org/codefest, places may run out quickly. -- Francesco From clements at galaxyproject.org Mon May 14 20:57:19 2012 From: clements at galaxyproject.org (Dave Clements) Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 13:57:19 -0700 Subject: [Open-bio-l] 2012 Galaxy Community Conference Message-ID: Hello all, We are pleased to announce that early registration for the 2012 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2012, http://galaxyproject.org/GCC2012) is now open. GCC2012 will be held July 25-27, at the UIC Forum, in Chicago, Illinois. The conference will feature two full days of presentations, discussions, lightning talks, and breakouts. We have also added a new full day of training this year, featuring 3 parallel tracks with four workshops each, covering seven to twelve different topics (please vote on topics by Friday May 18: http://bit.ly/GCC2012TDSurvey). The Galaxy Community Conference is for: * Sequencing core facility staff * Bioinformatics core staff * Bioinformatics tool and workflow developers * Bioinformatics focused principal investigators and researchers * Data producers * Power bioinformatics users This event is about integrating, analyzing, and sharing the diverse and very large datasets that are now typical in biomedical research. GCC2012 is an opportunity to share best practices with, and learn from, a large community of researchers and support staff who are facing the challenges of data-intensive biology. Galaxy is an open web-based platform for data intensive biomedical research (http://galaxyproject.org) that is widely used and deployed at research organizations of all sizes and around the world. Registration is very affordable, especially for post-docs and students. *You can can save 36% to 42% by registering on or before June 11*. Conference lodging can also be booked. Low-cost rooms have been reserved on the UIC campus. You can also stay at the official conference hotel, at a substantial discount. There are a limited rooms available in both, and you are encouraged to register early. Thanks, and hope to see you in Chicago! Dave Clements, on behalf of the GCC2012 Organizing Committee PS: Please help get the word out. A flyer and graphics are at http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Events/GCC2012/Promotion. -- http://galaxyproject.org/GCC2012 http://galaxyproject.org/ http://getgalaxy.org/ http://usegalaxy.org/ http://galaxyproject.org/wiki/ From francesco.strozzi at gmail.com Thu May 31 09:11:25 2012 From: francesco.strozzi at gmail.com (Francesco Strozzi) Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 11:11:25 +0200 Subject: [Open-bio-l] EU Codefest 2012 Announcement Message-ID: The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) EU-CodeFest will be held in Parco Tecnologico Padano (PTP) Lodi, Italy on the19th ? 20th of July. The CodeFest is a small focused event under the auspices of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and is a sister event of BOSC2012 being held in California USA this year. Three main topics will be worked on during the CodeFest: - NGS and high performance parsers for OpenBio projects. - RDF and semantic web for bioinformatics. - Bioinformatics pipelines definition, execution and distribution. The number of places is limited to 30 participants at maximum, on a first come, first serve basis. Undergraduate and PhD students are welcome to participate. The cost of the event is EUR 100 per person, which includes also lunches, coffee breaks and the social dinner on the 19th of July. Only for students, we can sponsor a limited number of attendees that will not pay for the registration fee. Those students, willing to participate for free to the event, will be asked to submit their qualifications and experience in software development. The organizing committee will review students? applications before final acceptance. Talks and abstracts may be presented during the CodeFest in sessions of 10 minutes plus questions. Coding activities will continue during the talks. The City of Lodi is very close to Milano and has good hotel facilities. The connections by air are excellent, via Milano Malpensa, Milano Linate and Bergamo Orio Al Serio airports. Please register soon using the form at this page http://tecnoparco.org/codefest, places may run out quickly. -- Francesco