<div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Hello all,</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><b>The <a href="https://gcc2016.iu.edu/abstracts/index.php" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px">oral presentation abstract deadline</a></b><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b> for GCC2016 has just been extended to April 8</b>.  </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Scholarship applications are still open as well.  A revised announcement is below.</span></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Dave C</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#550055"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">---------------------</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div></font></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><br></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><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"><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="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="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="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">    Bloomington, Indiana </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">    United States</span></p><div><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><br></span></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">The <b>2016 Galaxy Community Conference </b>(<b>GCC2016</b>, </span><u style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://gcc2016.iu.edu/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none">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" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration:none"><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" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration:none"><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" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration:none"><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" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration:none"><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" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none"><b>two days of training</b></a> in five concurrent tracks covering 26 topics.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#550055"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><u style="font-size:12.8px"><br></u></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><u style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://gcc2016.iu.edu/index.php" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none">GCC2016</a></span></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"> will be held at </span><u style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="http://indiana.edu/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none">Indiana University</a></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></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="https://galaxyproject.org/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px">Galaxy</a></span><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 style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/PublicGalaxyServers" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none">over 80 publicly accessible servers</a></span></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"> around the world.  </span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><b style="font-size:12.8px"><u><br></u></b></div></font><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b style="font-size:12.8px"><u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://gcc2016.iu.edu/abstracts/index.php" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none">Abstract submission</a></span></u></b><b style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"> for oral presentations closes April 8. </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9.5pt">Abstract submission for posters and computer demonstrations closes May 20.</span></div><font color="#550055"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><b style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><u><br></u></b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000"><b style="font-size:12.8px"><u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="https://gcc2016.iu.edu/registration/index.php" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none">Early registration</a></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" style="text-decoration:none;font-size:12.8px"><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 style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="https://gcc2016.iu.edu/location/index.php" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none">book conference housing</a></span></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"> when you register. </span><u style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/News/GCC2016Scholarships" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none">Registration and lodging scholarships</a></span></u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"> are available for attendees from underrepresented groups and developing countries.</span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9.5pt"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:9.5pt"><font color="#000000">Thanks, and we hope to see you in Bloomington!</font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial">The </span><u style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://gcc2016.iu.edu/organizers/index.php" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none">GCC2016 Exec</a></span></u></div></font></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><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