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Organizing the international Galaxy Community Conference (GCC) June 30th to July 2th 2013

Awarded: NOK 99,999

The Galaxy Community Conference (GCC) is held every other year in the US and Europe and is the main event of the Galaxy community. In 2012, the conference was in Chicago - http://wiki.g2.bx.psu.edu/Events/GCC2012. Galaxy is an open web-based platform for genomic research initially developed at Penn State and Emory Universities. It now has a large and growing community including institutions such as the Broad Institute, J. Craig Venter Institute, Sanger Institute, and EMBL in Barcelona and Heidelberg. The system allows efficient user and data handling, web accessibility, workflow construction and data sharing and puts special emphasis on transparency and reproducibility. (See refs. [1] and [2] in the Project description.) Galaxy is in use in several UiO p rojects (e.g. refs. [3] and [4] in the Project description.) It has been chosen as a university-wide platform for bioinformatics. Although the main focus of Galaxy is presently on genomics, much of the functionality is similarly applicable to scripts and software from any discipline. Thus the ambition of UiO is to develop the Galaxy system further as a general basis for web-based access to applications, and become a key node for the Nordic Galaxy community. The 2013 conference will be held at the premise s of Department of informatics at UiO and will follow the format of previous events. However, in addition, we will organize pre-conference applied workshops designed to mobilize and motivate life scientists as well as pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

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