IMG Workshop
Date: Monday, March 21
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Walnut Creek Marriott
Audience: Users and potential users of the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) data analysis systems.
Description: 1-day workshop with hands-on tutorials on IMG.
IMG-Metagenomes Workshop
Date: Tuesday, March 22
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Walnut Creek Marriott
Audience: Users and potential users of the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) with Microbiome Samples (IMG/M) data analysis system.
Description: half day workshop with hands-on tutorials on IMG/M.
Mycocosm Workshop
Date: Tuesday, March 22
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Walnut Creek Marriott
Audience: Users and potential users of the Mycocosm fungal genomics portal.
Description: The JGI Mycocosm web-portal provides data access, visualization, and analysis tools for comparative genomics of fungi. The goal of this workshop is to train both new and experienced users on how to use the key elements of Mycocosm including navigation across sequenced fungal genomes, comparative and genome-centric analyses of fungi and community annotation. Participants will learn how to analyze genome structure, gene families and pathways, search for genes of interest, add and curate your own data. This is a hands-on tutorial using laptop computers; please bring your own laptop.
Phytozome Workshop
Date: Tuesday, March 22
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Walnut Creek Marriott
Audience: Users and potential users of the Phytozome plant genomics portal.
Description: The Joint Genome Institute’s Phytozome web portal provides data access and visualization tools for comparative plant genomics. Phytozome integrates a number of widely used Open Source genomics platforms (GBrowse, BioMart, Jalview) with data systems, search, and visualization tools developed at JGI. This workshop will provide participants with an overview of the plant genomic data available at Phytozome, the various “entry points” to the Phytozome portal (e.g. sequence similarity search, functional and keyword search, genome browsing), data retrieval tools, and the types of analyses that are facilitated by Phytozome’s integrated environment.
IMG 101 Workshop
Date: Tuesday, March 22
Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Walnut Creek Marriott
Audience: Users and potential users of the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG)
and IMG with Microbiome Samples (IMG/M) data analysis systems.
Description: The goals of the IMG 101 are to (1) provide an overview of the MG family systems, especially the latest functionality added and (2) to discuss ongoing developments of analytical tools of IMG in three areas: (a) methods of analysis of genes, genomes and functions/pathways; (b) data quality through internal and community-driven curation efforts; and (c) methods of analysis of metagenomic data.
RNA Technologies & Analysis Workshop
Date: Tuesday, March 22
Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Walnut Creek Marriott
Audience: All current and potential JGI users with an interest in RNA projects.
Description: This workshop offers an opportunity to learn more about transcriptomics services at the JGI. We will present a comprehensive overview on the current technology suite for transcriptome interrogation, including RNA-Seq for expression profiling, 5’&3′ pair-end sequencing on transcript boundaries for genome annotation, subtraction based normalization for metatranscriptome characterization and smRNA/noncoding RNA discovery. We will also demo our standard data analysis pipelines and the user interface for customized analysis. We’re also interested in getting feedback from you to improve our service and better support your science.
MENGO Workshop
2nd MENGO Workshop (Gene Ontology Terms for Energy-Related Microbial Genomes)
Date: Friday, March 25
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: DOE Joint Genome Institute
Audience: All bioenergy researchers and genome annotators interested participating in this project.
Description: The MENGO project’s goal is to create new Gene Ontology (GO) terms that can be used in the annotation of microbial genomes of bioenergy interest. The aims of the workshop are to present the MENGO project to the bioenergy community, get feedback on the bioenergy areas to be targeted for GO term development, brainstorm about the scientific basis for bioenergy GO term development, form working groups for GO term development and recruit leaders and members, and generate GO terms. For more information on the MENGO project, visit http://mengo.vbi.vt.edu.
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(A limited number of fellowships for hotel accommodation are available.)