March 2018 News of the Galaxy!

The March 2018 Galaxy News brings much news!

• Lots of GCCBOSC 2018 news:

  • Abstract submission, registration & housing are open

    • Oral presentation abstracts due March 16

  • Training Schedule set

    • 17 topics in 22 sessions over two days covering the full spectrum of open source bioinformatics

  • We are pleased to announce two of the keynote speakers:

    • Fernando Pérez, of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, University of California Berkeley and Project Jupyter
    • Tracy K. Teal, of the Carpentries and the Journal for Open Scource Software

  • Sponsors:

    • F1000Research
    • Technology Association of Oregon
    • Call for sponsors

• Continental community meetings:

  • Europe, 14-16 March, Freiburg

  • Africa, 3-5 April, Cape Town

    • Apply for a Conference Fellowship by 10 March.
• Upcoming events (on four continents)

• New:

  • Galactic Blog post from Arun Decano: Coding in the Winter Wonderland: Galaxy Admin Training
  • 133 publications (including 5 highlighted ones)
  • Openings in 6 groups on 2 continents
  • Public Galaxy Server News (a new server and two updated ones)
  • ToolShed contributions
  • Releases of Planemo, Pulsar, and galaxy-lib.
• And other news too

See the newsletter for the full story, and hope to see you in Freiburg, Cape Town, and Portland!