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GCC2013 Early Reg closes 24 May

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Posted Mon, 05/20/2013 - 16:43

2013 Galaxy Community Conference
Early registration for the 2013 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2013) ends this Friday, 24 May. Early registration saves up to 75% off regular registration costs, and is downright affordable, with combined registration (Training Day + main meeting) starting at ~ €95 for post-docs and students. Registering early also assures you a spot in the Training Day workshops you want to attend.

New WebApollo Release

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Posted Fri, 05/17/2013 - 15:26

Download the new WebApollo release!
From Ed Lee on the WebApollo mailing list:
We'd like to announce a new WebApollo release.
Get the newest release -- Public demo -- Server setup instructions -- Updated user guide
Summary of changes:

Fully revamped genomic sequence selection screen
sorting by name and length (uses customizable JavaScript function)
filtering of genomic sequence names

Annotation info editor
allows editing of symbols, comments, and dbxrefs

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2013 Meeting Notes Online

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Posted Tue, 04/30/2013 - 18:56

For those of you who were unable to attend the April GMOD meeting, slides and archived tweets from the meeting are now online. See the April 2013 GMOD Meeting page for the material.

Posted to the GMOD News on 2013/04/30

Apply For GSoC 2013 Now!

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Posted Wed, 04/24/2013 - 16:18

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The Genome Informatics group is now accepting applications from students to participate in Google Summer of Code 2013.
Please check out the FAQs, timeline, and student manual if you are unfamiliar with the process. You can also read the Melange manual if you need help with Melange. The deadline to apply is 19:00 UTC, 3 May 2013.

Apply by June 10 for the 2013 GMOD Summer School, July 19-23 in Durham, NC

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Posted Fri, 04/19/2013 - 00:00

Applications are now open for the 2013 GMOD Summer School, a training course in genetic and genomic software to be held 19-23 July at NESCent, Durham, North Carolina.

Two grad students win travel awards to attend the "World Congress on Evolution III" in the Galapagos in June

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Posted Thu, 04/18/2013 - 00:00

Congratulations to the two outstanding graduate students who were selected for travel awards to attend the third "World Congress on Evolution", to be held June 1-5, 2013, on the Galapagos Island of San Cristobal.Melissa Kemp is a third-year PhD student in Elizabeth Hadly's lab at Stanford University, and Aide Macias Muñoz is a first-year PhD student from Adriana Briscoe's lab at UC Irvine.The awards will cover conference registration, travel, food and lodging.

Accepting Applications For GMOD Summer School 2013

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Posted Wed, 04/17/2013 - 14:24

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Applications are now open for the 2013 GMOD Summer School!
This year's course will be held from July 19th to 23rd at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), in Durham, North Carolina.
The GMOD Summer School is the best way to learn how to install, configure, and use popular GMOD tools, including GBrowse, JBrowse, Galaxy, MAKER, Tripal, WebApollo, and Chado; courses are taught by the tool developers, and there will be e

JBrowse 1.9.0 released

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Posted Wed, 04/17/2013 - 10:09

JBrowse 1.9.0 is out today, with some great new features, and lots of smaller improvements and bug fixes.
It can be downloaded from jbrowse.org.
Headline features for this release:

VCF variants support: we've added a new direct-access data backend for reading VCF files that have been compressed and indexed with bgzip and tabix, along with a new track type (HTMLVariants) optimized for viewing the sometimes-huge amounts of detail (particularly genotypes) associated with VCF variants.
Wiggle track types now by default choose a y-axis scale dynamically for the region being displayed (set as "a

Pathway Tools 17.0 Released

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Posted Mon, 04/15/2013 - 09:37

Version 17.0 of Pathway Tools has been released, and can be downloaded from the Pathway Tools website.
Version 17.0 is a major release that includes updates to the BioCyc Web site, downloadable data files, and downloadable Pathway Tools software/database bundle.

SGD and ENCODE DCC Jobs

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Posted Sat, 03/30/2013 - 20:09

From Mike Cherry at the Cherry Lab, Stanford, CA:
I have multiple positions open in my group, either with the Saccharomyces Genome Database or the ENCODE Data Coordination Center. The positions include Senior Biocurator, Data Wrangler (Bioinformatic Analyst), and Python Software Engineer for UI construction. Please see the job advertisement (PDF) for more information.

Posted to the GMOD News on 2013/3/30

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