[Open-bio-l] Galaxy Community Conference, May 25-26, Lunteren, The Netherlands

[Dave Clements]

Hello all,

This is a reminder that early registration for the 2011 Galaxy Community
Conference ends in less than two weeks.  You can save 20% if you register on
or before 24 April.
  http://galaxy.psu.edu/gcc2011/Register.html

We've also added a partial list of confirmed speakers.  More will be added
in the coming weeks as the schedule firms up.
  http://galaxy.psu.edu/gcc2011/Programme.html

Please let me know if you have any questions, and hope to see you in May,

Dave C.

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Dave Clements <clementsgalaxy at gmail.com>wrote:

> We are pleased to announce the *2011 Galaxy Community Conference*, being
> held *May 25-26 in Lunteren, The Netherlands*.  The meeting will feature
> two full days of presentations and discussion on extending Galaxy to use new
> tools and data sources, deploying Galaxy at your organization, and best
> practices for using Galaxy to further your own and your community's
> research.  See http://galaxy.psu.edu/gcc2011/* for complete details.
> *
> *About Galaxy:
> *Galaxy is an open, web-based platform for *accessible, reproducible, and
> transparent* computational biomedical research.
>
>    - *Accessibility:* Galaxy enables users without programming experience
>    to easily specify parameters and run tools and workflows.
>    - *Reproducibility:* Galaxy captures all information necessary so that
>    any user can repeat and understand a complete computational analysis.
>    - *Transparency:* Galaxy enables users to share and publish analyses
>    via the web and create Pages--interactive, web-based documents that describe
>    a complete analysis.
>
> Galaxy is open source for all organizations. The public Galaxy service (
> http://usegalaxy.org) makes analysis tools, genomic data,
> tutorial demonstrations, persistent workspaces, and publication services
> available to any scientist that has access to the Internet. Local
> Galaxy servers can be set up by downloading the Galaxy application and
> customizing it to meet particular needs.
>
> *Conference Overview:
> *
> This event aims to engage a broader community of developers, data
> producers, tool creators, and core facility and other research hub staff to
> become an active part of the Galaxy community.   We'll cover defining
> resources in the Galaxy framework, increasing their visibility and making
> them easier to use and integrate with other resources, how to extend Galaxy
> to use custom data sources and custom tools, and best practices for using
> Galaxy in your organization.
>
> Additional topics include, but are not limited to:
> * Talks submitted by the Galaxy community
> * Integration of tools (including NGS analysis tools) and distributed job
> management
> * Deployment of Galaxy instances on local resources and on the Cloud
> * Management of large datasets with the Galaxy Library System
> * Using the Galaxy LIMS functionality at NGS sequencing facilities
> * Visualizing Data without leaving Galaxy
> * Performing reproducible research
> * Performing and sharing complex analyses with Workflows
> * An "Introduction to Galaxy" session, offered on May 24, for Galaxy
> newcomers.
>
> *Registration:
> *
> The conference fee is €100 on or before April 24, and €120 after that.  The
> meeting is being held at the Conference Centre De Werelt in Lunteren, The
> Netherlands, which is also the conference hotel.  You are encouraged to
> register early, as space at the hotel (and at the "Intro to Galaxy" session)
> is limited and is likely to fill up before the conference itself does.  See
> http://galaxy.psu.edu/gcc2011/Register.html
> *
> Abstract Submission:
> *
> Abstracts are now being accepted for short oral presentations.  Proposals
> on any topic of interest to the Galaxy community are welcome and
> encouraged.   The abstract submission deadline is the end of February 28.
> See http://galaxy.psu.edu/gcc2011/Abstracts.html
> * *
> *Sponsors
> *
> The 2011 Galaxy Community Conference is co-sponsored by the US National
> Science Foundation (NSF, http://www.nsf.gov/), and the Netherlands
> Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC, http://www.nbic.nl/).  NBIC is a
> collaborative institute of the bioinformatics groups in the Netherlands.
> Together, these groups perform cutting-edge research, develop novel tools
> and support platforms, create an e-science infrastructure and educate the
> next generations of bioinformaticians.
>
> We are looking forward to a great conference and hope to see you in the
> Netherlands!
>
> The Galaxy and NBIC Teams
>
> --
> http://galaxy.psu.edu/gcc2011/
> http://getgalaxy.org
> http://usegalaxy.org/
>



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