[Gmod-help] NESCent summer school

[Jeff Dudycha]

Dave,

Thanks for your reply, it was very helpful.  I doubt the Summer School 
is what I'm looking for.  I was thinking more of a practical training 
event for users of a database, not maintainers/implementers.  It didn't 
sound like the SS was what I was interested in, but I thought I'd ask 
since NESCent isn't far away from where I am.

> for.  However, I am interested to know if you have any specific
> questions that we might be able to help with.  Are there particular
> parts of GMOD that are hard to use or understand?  Are any parts of
> the documentation particularly obtuse, or is there no documentation to
> be had for some things?  A part of my job is to address issues like
> these and I welcome any direction you can offer.

No particular problems; I haven't really tried to do much.  I really 
dislike learning how to do online things by reading documentation until 
I've had a tutorial with a live person who knows what s/he's doing -- 
usually there is too much assumed knowledge of terminology to make much 
sense of the documentation (I'm thinking GenBank in particular, but also 
FlyBAse, WormBase, EuGenes, and other major organism databases).  I 
haven't investigated the GMOD documentation closely, so I can't say what 
might or might not be effective in it.

I wish I were going to the Arthro genomics symposium, but it's smack-dab 
in the middle of my field season, so it didn't work out.

Cheers,

Jeff


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Jeffry L. Dudycha
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Biological Sciences
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC  29208
dudycha [at] biol.sc.edu
http://www.biol.sc.edu/faculty/dudycha.html
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