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***The application deadline for both GMOD summer schools is April 6,
one week from now.***

GMOD Summer School - Americas will be held 16-19 July at the National
Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), in Durham, NC, USA.  Student
tuition is free.  See
http://gmod.org/wiki/2009_GMOD_Summer_School_-_Americas

GMOD Summer School - Europe will be held 3-6 August at the University
of Oxford, in Oxford, UK.  This is a part of GMOD Europe 2009, which
includes the next GMOD Meeting.  Student tuition is �95.  See
http://gmod.org/wiki/2009_GMOD_Summer_School_-_Europe

Please contact the GMOD Help Desk (help@gmod.org) if you have questions.

We hope to see you in Durham or Oxford,

Dave C.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Dave Clements <clements@nescent.org> wrote:
> We are now accepting applications for the 2009 GMOD Summer Schools:
>
> Americas, 16-19 July
> �- National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), Durham, NC, USA
> �- Student tuition is free, thanks to NIH grant 1R01HG004483-01.
> �- http://gmod.org/wiki/2009_GMOD_Summer_School_-_Americas
>
> Europe, 3-6 August
> �- University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
> �- Part of GMOD Europe 2009, which includes the next GMOD Meeting
> �- Student tuition is �95
> �- http://gmod.org/wiki/2009_GMOD_Summer_School_-_Europe
>
> GMOD (http://gmod.org/) is a collection of interoperable open source
> software components for managing, visualizing, annotating and
> integrating biological, mostly genomic, data. �GMOD is also a
> community of developers and users dealing with similar challenges.
> GMOD is used in diverse contexts, with both emerging and established
> model organisms.
>
> GMOD Summer Schools (http://gmod.org/wiki/GMOD_Summer_School)
> introduce new GMOD users to the GMOD project and feature several days
> of hands-on training on how to install, configure and administer GMOD
> tools.
>
> The courses includes training on several GMOD components:
> �* GBrowse - the widely used Generic Genome Browser
> �* Chado - a modular and extensible database schema for biological data
> �* Apollo - genome annotation editor
> �* BioMart - biological data warehouse system
> �* GBrowse_syn - a GBrowse based synteny viewer
> �* JBrowse - a brand new Web 2.0 genome browser
> �* Artemis-Chado Integration (Europe only)
> �* MAKER - Genome annotation pipeline (Americas only)
> �* Tripal - Web front end for Chado (Americas only)
>
> ***Please submit an application by the end of 6 April 2009, if you are
> interested in attending. ***
>
> Enrollment is limited to 25 students in each course. �If applications
> exceed capacity (and we expect they will) then applicants will be
> picked based on the strength of their application. �Applicants will be
> notified of their admission status in mid-April.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave Clements
> GMOD Help Desk
> help@gmod.org
>
> http://gmod.org/wiki/2009_GMOD_Summer_School_-_Americas
> http://gmod.org/wiki/2009_GMOD_Summer_School_-_Europe
> http://gmod.org/wiki/GMOD_Europe_2009
>