Dear Stéphanie <br><br>
Thank you for your statement of interest in the GMOD short course. We will contact you in mid-April regarding your application.<br><br>Will you have hired any of the GMOD System Administrators by July? It would be good to have at least one of them apply for the Implementation track. If you don't have any names yet, I'd be happy to also put in "person-to-be-named" application for GnpAnnot for the Implementation track. (I would just copy the application below). <br>
<br>The 2008 GMOD meeting will almost certainly be scheduled for July 16-17 in Toronto. This is immediately before ISMB 2008, and just 2 days after the GMOD Summer School ends in North Carolina. We are hoping to have these dates definitively nailed down in the next week or so. I will let you know when it becomes definite.<br>
<br>You are the second person to express an interest in having a GMOD school in Europe. Someone from the Netherlands also requested it. We don't currently have the funds for it, but if the interest is there we will certainly investigate options. <br>
<br>Finally, several related projects are already or considering using GMOD (you may already be aware of these):<br> - ButterflyBase, <a href="http://butterflybase.ice.mpg.de/">http://butterflybase.ice.mpg.de/</a> - In the process of converting some functionality to GMOD; based in Europe<br>
- HeliconiusBase, <a href="http://heliconius-dev.nescent.org/heliconius_ws/">http://heliconius-dev.nescent.org/heliconius_ws/</a> - In development<br> - AphidBase, <a href="http://www.aphidbase.com/">http://www.aphidbase.com/</a> - annotators meeting July 14-15 in Princeton (halfway between North Carolina and Toronto)<br>
I'm glad to see that you are working with Linda and Oliver. They are great sources of knowledge about GMOD.<br><br>I look forward to working with you during this project. Please let me know if you have any questions.<br>
<br>Dave Clements<br>GMOD Help Desk<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Apache <<a href="mailto:apache@gmod.cshl.edu">apache@gmod.cshl.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
From: stéphanie SIDIBE BOCS <<a href="mailto:stephanie.sidibe-bocs@cirad.fr">stephanie.sidibe-bocs@cirad.fr</a>><br>
affiliation: Joint Research Unit Plant Development and Genetic Improvement CIRAD<br>
url: <a href="http://umr-dap.cirad.fr/equipes/id_integration_des_donnees" target="_blank">http://umr-dap.cirad.fr/equipes/id_integration_des_donnees</a><br>
track: PI<br>
statementofinterest: As I wrote to Scott Cain on the 29th of February, I am leading a project on green genomics called GnpAnnot which intends to develop a platform of structural and functional annotation supported by comparative genomics and dedicated to plant and bio-aggressor genomes allowing both automatic predictions and manual curation of genes and transposable elements. It is a 3 years project (2008-2010) funded by GENOPLANTE ANR (French National Research Agency) which involves several research organizations: CIRAD, INRA and Bioversity. The full cost of the GnpAnnot project is 4 200 539 $ (2 662 277 €) and the GENOPLANTE ANR fund allocated to the project is of 809 073 $ (512 965 €). This fund will allow to employ three GMOD Systems Administrators (seven years of fixed-term contracts in total) that will be divided into three places covering the four instances of the GnpAnnot platform:<br>
• Monocotyledons (banana, CIRAD-DAP, Bioversity-CfL; Montpellier),<br>
• Grapevine / wheat (INRA-URGI; INRA-GDEC, INRA-SPO; Evry),<br>
• Insects (aphid, lepidoptera, INRA-BIO3P, INRA-BIVI; Rennes),<br>
• Fungi (Leptosphaeria, Blumeria, Botrytis, INRA-BIOGER; Evry).<br>
This fund will also help to complete the computing equipments already on the places:<br>
• HP servers and RedHat operating system at Montpellier DAP,<br>
• Sun server and Solaris OS at Evry URGI,<br>
• Cluster of Sun servers and RedHat OS at Rennes BIO3P.<br>
Our community gathers computer scientists, bioinformaticians, bio-analysts and biologists. We also collaborate with Linda Sperling and Olivier Arnaiz (ParameciumDB, CNRS). The four instances of the platform will be used by international communities of genome annotators and curators.<br>
We agreed to set up an open source platform mainly based on GMOD components and Chado compatible tools such as GBrowse, Apollo, Argos, Artemis, Turnkey, Lucegene, BioMart, Modware, Pathway Tools, SynBrowse, Citrina, Table Editor…<br>
We would like to participate in the development of these components and also to develop new tools when necessary. For that, we already subscribed to GMOD mailing lists.<br>
We would be also interested to participate in the organization of a GMOD French community (e.g. GMOD school). So, a first approach may be to attend the 2008 GMOD Summer School in order to discuss further possible interactions. We could also envisage teleconference if you find it relevant.<br>
As you can see, we would like to contribute and adopt GMOD components and to work as closely and as efficiently as possible with the GMOD community.<br>
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commentsandquestions: Will there be a 2008 GMOD meeting? Are there any dates and place defined for this workshop?<br>
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