created by Geraldine_VdAuwera
on 2017-10-13
Fall is my favorite season -- it combines the best weather in New England and the most active period of the year for GATK events and announcements (although sometimes the latter means we don't get to go out and enjoy the former as much as we'd like). In keeping with that, we have a couple of important announcements that will go out early next week. However I'm breaking radio silence now to give you a quick update on what's been happening with regard to events and workshops, specifically.
Coming soonest: FLOW pipelining workshop showcasing GATK4 pipelines, organized by DNAstack in Orlando, Oct 17
Plus upcoming GATK workshops and links to recent workshop materials.
Details below!
ASHG in Orlando, FL (Oct 17-21)
The yearly meeting of the American Society for Human Genetics is always a hotspot for us, so we've got a lot going on there:
GATK workshop in Pretoria, South Africa (Oct 23-27)
This is a "bootcamp special" version of our popular workshop series, running five entire days, with interleaved talks and hands-on exercises, hosted by the University of Pretoria. I'm not sure there are any spots left but if you're interested (and presumably, local to that part of the world, given the short time remaining), see this document.
GATK workshop in Huntington, West Virginia (Nov 8-10)
This one is our classic workshop formula, running three days with one day of talks and two days of hands-on exercises, hosted by the WV-INBRE Bioinformatics Core Facility. It's open to all comers and I believe there are still a few spots left, for which you can register here.
SuperComputing '17 in Denver, Colorado (Nov 12-17)
We'll be demoing GATK4 pipelines running on Google Cloud; exact schedule TBD.
Coming next
We are currently developing the workshop schedule for 2018, and are so far talking with several prospective hosts in Europe, North America and Asia. We hope to be able to offer a good selection of locations worldwide. And we're still taking requests, so don't hesitate to reach out to us if you'd like to consider hosting us yourself!
We held several workshops this summer; Cambridge and Edinburgh in July, and Helsinki in September. As always, the latest workshop materials (Helsinki version) are accessible from the Presentations page. If you're lazy (or should I say effort-averse), here's a direct link to the relevant Google Drive folder -- but keep in mind this will not remain the latest version for long.
Updated on 2017-10-13
From shlee on 2017-11-06
Here is the direct link to the Helsinki workshop (1709) materials with extended hands-on tutorials: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzI1CyccGsZicXNqZWplU0d6Ync