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DAS workshop 2009

Invitation to DAS workshop 2009

We are organizing a 3-day workshop on DAS.

About

DAS is an important system for exchanging and viewing of biological data, with more than 400 DAS sources available world wide. Several different projects are working on applications and resources to provide DAS support. The purpose of this meeting is to improve communication between these projects and let interested people learn what they can do with DAS and how to do it.
All days on the workshop are optional. To make the most of having many DAS experts in one place there is an extra day this year for break off groups to push forward with their DAS projects.
People new to DAS will likely want to attend the first day, conversely experts may decide only to attend the 2nd and 3rd day.

Location

Genome Campus, Hinxton

Schedule

Dates

• Monday 9th March, 2009 (Tutorials - Practical)
• Tuesday 10th March, 2008 (Talks)
• Wednesday 11th March, 2008 (Hackathon)

Day 1 - Monday 9th March

Hands-on day
This is the practical day where you can learn how to work with DAS.

• learn what you can do with DAS
• how to talk to a DAS server
• how to set up your own servers

Prelimiary schedule:

1. What DAS commands look like.
2. How to request via Perl / Java.
3. How to set up a DAS server.
4. How to get a list from available servers from the DAS registry.

(tbc) ... to be confirmed
Evening: dinner in Cambridge or the Red Lion at Hinxton

Day 2 - Tuesday 10th March

DAS client developers days.
This is the day where developers present their DAS related applications, websites and discuss new ideas.

• present the progress over the last year
• find synergies
• see if/how interoperability can be improved
• discuss possible future extensions to DAS

Each participating group is invited to give a 15 min presentation. There is time for a short discussion after each talk. Please contact Jonathan Warren if you want to give a presentation on this day.

Prelimiary schedule:

Day 3 - Wednesday 11th March

Work on pushing forward with specific projects/aspects of DAS. Please suggest subjects when you register.

Suggestions so far include:

• DAS1/DAS2 merger
• DAS writeback
• Adapting Java DAS client libraries for alignment and PDB file retrieval for clients that dont use BioJava
• Ajax das client/server library (allow DAS server discovery and retrieval on the browser page)
• Graphical Representation of data
• DAS interfaces to sequence analysis tools
• BioSapiens ontology lookup
• DAS vs. ontologies, how and why.
• DAS 1.6 spec and where to go with the Registry

Costs Summary

• Registration - Free.
• Travel - Cost born by participants unless they are part of the BioSapiens project.
• Accommodation - Cost born by participants unless they are part of the BioSapiens project in which case they can claim it back.
• Dinner in Cambridge or the Mogul (indian restaurant) on Monday evening - Free.
• Lunches and coffee - Free (except for the 3rd day)

Registration

The workshop is fully booked now and the registration has been closed. If you are a registered participant we will contact you directly per email.
If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact jw12@sanger.ac.uk.

Further Information for Attendees:

Extra Information Detailed schedule and extra info for people staying in the Saffron Hotel.

Contact

Please send any feedback, comments and suggestions to Jonathan Warren
For non-scientific queries related to organisation please email Caren Brockington

Travel directions to the campus

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Information/Travel/travel.html

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