<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><b><u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)">2016 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2016)</span></u></b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">    <u><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="http://gcc2016.iu.edu/" target="_blank">gcc2016.iu.edu</a></span></u></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">    June 25 - 29, 2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">    </span><u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)">Indiana University</span></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">    Bloomington, Indiana </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">    United States</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">------</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">The <b>2016 Galaxy Community Conference </b>(<b>GCC2016</b>, </span><u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="http://gcc2016.iu.edu/" target="_blank">gcc2016.iu.edu</a></span></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">) features two days of presentations, discussions, poster sessions, lightning talks, computer demos, keynotes, and birds-of-a-feather meetups, <b>all about data-intensive biology and the tools that support it</b>. Keynote speaker</span><a href="http://genes.uchicago.edu/directory/yoav-gilad-phd/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">Yoav Gilad</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">, a professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago, will kick-start the main conference with a discussion on the analysis of large gene regulatory data sets. Preconference events include </span><a href="https://gcc2016.iu.edu/hacks/hacks-data.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">data</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"> and </span><a href="https://gcc2016.iu.edu/hacks/hacks-coding.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">coding</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"> </span><a href="https://gcc2016.iu.edu/hacks/index.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">hackathons</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">, and <a href="https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/Training+%E2%80%94+Any" target="_blank"><b>two days of training</b></a> in five concurrent tracks covering 26 topics.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)">GCC2016</span></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"> will be held at </span><u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)">Indiana University</span></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"> in Bloomington, Indiana, June 25-29, 2016.  Since it started seven years ago, GCC has been a well-attended gathering of biologists, genome researchers, bioinformaticians, and others in data-intensive biomedical research around the world.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a href="https://galaxyproject.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">Galaxy</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"> is an open, web-based platform for data-intensive biomedical research and enables easy interactive analysis through the web on arbitrarily large data sets. The Galaxy framework is a major resource in achieving key research goals within the biological field. It provides next-generation sequencing (NGS) tools and workflows for short-read mapping, ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, metagenomics, variant analysis, visualization, and support for Galaxy in the cloud. There are hundreds of local installs, and </span><u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)">over 80 publicly accessible servers</span></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"> around the world.  </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><br></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)">Abstract submission</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"> for oral presentations closes March 25. </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9.5pt">Abstract submission for posters and computer demonstrations closes May 20.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><br></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)">Early registration</span></u></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"> is now open. </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">Registration starts at less than $45/day for post-docs and students. Registering early assures you a place at the conference and also a spot in the </span><a href="https://gcc16.sched.org/overview/type/Training+%E2%80%94+Any" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">training workshops</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"> you want to attend. You can also </span><u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)">book conference housing</span></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"> when you register. </span><u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)">Registration and lodging scholarships</span></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"> are available for attendees from underrepresented groups and developing countries.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">Thanks, and we hope to see you in Bloomington!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">The </span><u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)">GCC2016 Exec</span></u></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="http://galaxyproject.org/" target="_blank">http://galaxyproject.org/</a><br></div><a href="http://getgalaxy.org/" target="_blank">http://getgalaxy.org/</a><br><a href="http://usegalaxy.org/" target="_blank">http://usegalaxy.org/</a><br><a href="https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/" target="_blank">https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/</a><br></div></div>
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