The 2013 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2013) will start on 30 June with a Training Day featuring fourfive parallel tracks, each with three workshops, each of which are two hours long, for a total of twelvefifteen sessions on twelve different topics. Sessions are evenly split between topics aimed at biological research, topics aimed at Galaxy deployers and developers, and those that are geared twoards both audiences. The topics were nominated and selected by the Galaxy Community in early 2013. The increased number of parallel tracks and topics was driven by unexpected demand.

Workshops will be hands-on and participants will be strongly encouraged to bring a laptop and follow along.

Registration

You register for the Training Day (and specify which sessions you will attend) when you register for the conference. You can register for the Training Day and the main meeting, or just the Training Day.

Training Day registration is 55% off if you register for both.

Schedule

Prerequisites and Technology

Each topics lists prerequisites, both for what you should know, hardware, and software.

Hardware

In almost every workshop participants will need a wifi-enabled laptop.

Software

In general:

All Workshops: Require a web browser such as Chrome, Firefox, or Safari. The latest version of Internet Explorer should also work.

Galaxy Deployment and Development Workshops: Require virtual machine (VM) player software on your laptop, either VirtualBox, or VMware player. See the Training Day VMs page for more. This should be installed before you arrive at the conference.

See each individual workshop's list of prerequisite for specifics.

Topics

General Workshops

Introduction to Galaxy and the Galaxy Ecosystem

Instructors	Anton Nekrutenko, Penn State University Jennifer Hillman-Jackson, Penn State University
Content	New to Galaxy? This will introduce you to the Galaxy Project, the Galaxy Community, and walk you through a simple use case demonstrating what Galaxy can do.	This workshop uses [AWS](http://aws.amazon.com/)-based compute infrastructure
Prerequisites	* A modern web browser. Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari will work best. * Little or no knowledge of Galaxy.
Outcomes	You'll know what Galaxy can do, the basics of how to use it, and have an understanding of the project.
Links	Slides

Running Galaxy on the Cloud

Instructors	Enis Afgan, Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) Dannon Baker, Emory University
Content	Want the power of Galaxy without the compute infrastructure overhead? Need to run compute-intensive analysis, but only from time to time? Learn how to set up your own elastic, and fully populated (tools and reference data) Galaxy instance using Amazon Web Services. You'll also learn to customize and share your galaxy cloud instance with others.	This workshop uses [AWS](http://aws.amazon.com/)-based compute infrastructure
Prerequisites	* A modern web browser. Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari will work best. * Knowledge and comfort with the Unix/Linux command line interface and a text editor. If you don't know what cd, mv, rm, mkdir, chmod, grep and so on can do then you will struggle in this workshop. * Knowledge of a simple Text Editor (`vi, pico, nano`).
Outcomes	You will have created a Galaxy server on Amazon Web Services using CloudMan.
Links	Slides

Biologist Centric Workshops

RNA-Seq Analysis with Galaxy

Instructors	Jeroen F.J. Laros, LUMC Wibowo Arindrarto, LUMC Leon Mei, NBIC/LUMC
Content	This hands-on workshop will demonstrate basic RNA-Seq analysis pipelines including quality control, alignment (e.g. Tophat (Bowtie), GSNAP), transcript assembly (Cufflinks), exon and transcript quantification, and differential expression analysis in Galaxy. Sample datasets small enough to be successfully processed during the course of the seminar will be provided. Participants will perform the analyses themselves on the provided cloud instance of Galaxy.	This workshop uses [AWS](http://aws.amazon.com/)-based compute infrastructure
Prerequisites	* A modern web browser. Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari will work best. * A general knowledge of Galaxy, or attendance at the "[Introduction to Galaxy and the Galaxy Ecosystem](/events/gcc2013/training-day/#introduction-to-galaxy-and-the-galaxy-ecosystem)" session.
Outcomes	1. *Reads to Results* analysis of transcript level differences between two conditions 1. Visualization of the results in Galaxy’s Trackster
Links	Slides, Handouts

Statistical Genome Analysis with Galaxy

ChIP-Seq Analysis with Galaxy

Variant and SNP Analysis with Galaxy

Instructors	Erik Garrison, Boston College Anton Nekrutenko, Penn State University
Content	Participants in this workshop will use simulation to develop familiarity with the performance of basic SNP and indel detection methods. By comparing variant detection results under different conditions to the known set of true variants produced by the simulation, participants will assess the effects of standard practices such as base quality recalibration, indel realignment, and variant quality filters.	This workshop uses [AWS](http://aws.amazon.com/)-based compute infrastructure
Prerequisites	* A modern web browser. Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari will work best. * A general knowledge of Galaxy, or attendance at the "[Introduction to Galaxy and the Galaxy Ecosystem](/events/gcc2013/training-day/#introduction-to-galaxy-and-the-galaxy-ecosystem)" session.
Outcomes	You will be able to use simulation to determine optimal small variant detection methods and selection criteria for a given experimental design.
Links	Slides

Galaxy Deployment and Development Workshops

Installing and Maintaining a Local Galaxy Server

Instructors	George Magklaras, Biotechnology Center of Oslo & Norwegian Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Oslo Katerina Michalickova, University Center for Information Technology (USIT), University of Oslo Nikolay Vazov, University Center for Information Technology (USIT), University of Oslo
Content	Learn how to install your own copy of Galaxy locally. Participants will install Galaxy on a virtual machine image provided at the workshop. Different aspects of the administration of a running Galaxy instance. How to monitor tool usage and user quota. How to make good use of groups. How to safely upgrade your Galaxy, and the tools it uses.
Prerequisites	* A modern web browser. Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari will work best. * [Virtual machine (VM) player software](/events/gcc2013/training-day/vms/), either [VirtualBox](http://virtualbox.org) or [VMware Player](https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_player/). * The [virtual machine image](/events/gcc2013/training-day/vms/#2-download-needed-vms-on-your-laptop) (download from [Norway](ftp://ftp.no.embnet.org/galaxy/images/BasicWorkshop.ova) or [US](http://depot.galaxyproject.org/BasicWorkshop.ova)) for this workshop. * A general knowledge of Galaxy, or attendance at the "[Introduction to Galaxy and the Galaxy Ecosystem](/events/gcc2013/training-day/#introduction-to-galaxy-and-the-galaxy-ecosystem)" session. * Knowledge and comfort with the Unix/Linux command line interface and a text editor. If you don't know what cd, mv, rm, mkdir, chmod, grep and so on can do then you will struggle in this workshop. * Basic Linux package management administration (yum / apt-get) * Basic [PostgreSQL](http://postgresql.org) database setup skills * Knowledge of a simple Text Editor (`vi, pico, nano`).	This workshop will require that you have the [VirtualBox](http://virtualbox.org) player (or [VMware](http://vnware.com) player) installed on your laptop.
Outcomes	You will have installed and configured a running Galaxy instance under Linux.
Links	Slides

Introduction to Tool and Data Source Configuration

Instructors	Dan Blankenberg, Penn State University Ross Lazarus, BakerIDI
Content	Learn to integrate new tools and data sources into your Galaxy installation.
Prerequisites	* A modern web browser. Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari will work best. * [Virtual machine (VM) player software](/events/gcc2013/training-day/vms/), either [VirtualBox](http://virtualbox.org) or [VMware Player](https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_player/). * The [virtual machine image](/events/gcc2013/training-day/vms/#2-download-needed-vms-on-your-laptop) (download from [US](http://depot.galaxyproject.org/GCC2013-AdvWorkshops.ova)) for this workshop. * A general knowledge of Galaxy, or attendance at the "[Introduction to Galaxy and the Galaxy Ecosystem](/events/gcc2013/training-day/#introduction-to-galaxy-and-the-galaxy-ecosystem)" session. * Knowledge and comfort with the Unix/Linux command line interface and a text editor. If you don't know what cd, mv, rm, mkdir, chmod, grep and so on can do then you will struggle in this workshop. * Knowledge of a simple Text Editor (`vi, pico, nano`). * A "simple" executable tool you would like to wrap that takes and/or creates existing Galaxy datatypes like bed/fastq/bam etc such as one of the [bedTools executables](http://code.google.com/p/bedtools/).	This workshop will require that you have the [VirtualBox](http://virtualbox.org) player (or [VMware](http://vnware.com) player) installed on your laptop.
Outcomes	You will have wrapped and installed tools and data sources in a Galaxy server, and be familiar with basic tool definition in Galaxy.
Links	Workshop material

Advanced Tool and Data Source Configuration

Instructors	Ross Lazarus, BakerIDI Dan Blankenberg, Penn State University
Content	This topic would cover the advanced tool configuration, specifically designed for people that want to add their own tools or need to modify existing tools. Specific emphasis on using CHEETAH code and explanation of all the XML tags used in defining a tool
Prerequisites	* A modern web browser. Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari will work best. * [Virtual machine (VM) player software](/events/gcc2013/training-day/vms/), either [VirtualBox](http://virtualbox.org) or [VMware Player](https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_player/). * The [virtual machine image](/events/gcc2013/training-day/vms/#2-download-needed-vms-on-your-laptop) (download from [US](http://depot.galaxyproject.org/GCC2013-AdvWorkshops.ova)) for this workshop. * Basic understanding of the process for developing a simple Galaxy tool as well as Galaxy data types, or attendance at [Introduction to Tool and Data Sources Configureation](/events/gcc2013/training-day/#introduction-to-tool-and-data-source-configuration). * Knowledge of a simple Text Editor (`vi, pico, nano`). * Knowledge and comfort with the Unix/Linux command line interface and a text editor. If you don't know what cd, mv, rm, mkdir, chmod, grep and so on can do then you will struggle in this workshop.	This workshop will require that you have the [VirtualBox](http://virtualbox.org) player (or [VMware](http://vnware.com) player) installed on your laptop.
Outcomes
Outcomes	Workshop materials

Galaxy Tool Shed

Instructors	Greg Von Kuster, Penn State University Dave Bouvier, Penn State University
Content	The Galaxy Tool Shed is a place for the Galaxy community to share useful Galaxy utilities. Galaxy utilities are functionally correct Galaxy tools (including the new specialized Data Manager tools), custom Galaxy datatypes, 3rd-party tool dependency definitions, simple and complex repository dependency definitions and exported Galaxy workflows. All of these Galaxy utilities will be discussed in detail in this workshop. This workshop includes discussions about tool dependency and repository dependency definitions, but excludes discussions about developing new tools, custom datatypes or Galaxy workflows.
Prerequisites	* A modern web browser. Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari will work best. * [Virtual machine (VM) player software](/events/gcc2013/training-day/vms/), either [VirtualBox](http://virtualbox.org) or [VMware Player](https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_player/). * The [virtual machine image](/events/gcc2013/training-day/vms/#2-download-needed-vms-on-your-laptop) (download from [US](http://depot.galaxyproject.org/GCC2013-AdvWorkshops.ova)) for this workshop. * A general knowledge of Galaxy, or attendance at the "[Introduction to Galaxy and the Galaxy Ecosystem](/events/gcc2013/training-day/#introduction-to-galaxy-and-the-galaxy-ecosystem)" session. * Knowledge and comfort with the Unix/Linux command line interface and a text editor. If you don't know what cd, mv, rm, mkdir, chmod, grep and so on can do then you will struggle in this workshop. * Basic understanding of the process for developing a simple Galaxy tool as well as Galaxy data types, or attendance at [Introduction to Tool and Data Sources Configureation](/events/gcc2013/training-day/#introduction-to-tool-and-data-source-configuration).	This workshop will require that you have the [VirtualBox](http://virtualbox.org) player (or [VMware](http://vnware.com) player) installed on your laptop.
Outcomes	1. Starting up your own local tool shed as well as your own local Galaxy instance. You will be interacting between these 2 applications throughout this workshop. 2. Creating new repositories in your tool shed, and uploading various Galaxy utilities to them. 3. Discovering how relationships are built between repositories and repository contents in the tool shed using tool dependency and simple and complex repository dependency definitions. 4. Installing repositories that contain each category of Galaxy utilities from the tool shed into your Galaxy instance and understanding the installation behavior of each of the utilities. 5. Deactivating and reactivating repositories installed into Galaxy and understanding the behavior of the various Galaxy utilities contained in the repositories. 6. Uninstalling and reinstalling repositories installed into Galaxy and understanding the behavior of the various Galaxy utilities contained in the repositories. 7. Building new Galaxy flavors using the tool shed.
Links	Tool Shed Workshop slides Tool Shed Workshop recipe

The Galaxy API

Instructors	Nate Coraor, Penn State University Carl Eberhard, Emory University
Content	Learn the ins and outs of the Galaxy Applications Programming Interface (API). Examples of how to interact with multiple Galaxy resources and how to build a complex script from API building blocks. Details.
Prerequisites	* A modern web browser. Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari will work best. * [Virtual machine (VM) player software](/events/gcc2013/training-day/vms/), either [VirtualBox](http://virtualbox.org) or [VMware Player](https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_player/). * The [virtual machine image](/events/gcc2013/training-day/vms/#2-download-needed-vms-on-your-laptop) (download from [US](http://depot.galaxyproject.org/GCC2013-AdvWorkshops.ova)) for this workshop. * A general knowledge of Galaxy, or attendance at the "[Introduction to Galaxy and the Galaxy Ecosystem](/events/gcc2013/training-day/#introduction-to-galaxy-and-the-galaxy-ecosystem)" session. * Knowledge and comfort with the Unix/Linux command line interface and a text editor. If you don't know what cd, mv, rm, mkdir, chmod, grep and so on can do then you will struggle in this workshop. * Knowledge of a programming or scripting language.	This workshop will require that you have the [VirtualBox](http://virtualbox.org) player (or [VMware](http://vnware.com) player) installed on your laptop.
Outcomes	You will know how to interact with Galaxy through its API.
Links	Workshop Materials

Galaxy Code and Storage Architecture

Training Day Sponsor

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the official sponsor or the GCC2013 Training Day. Many of the workshops will use AWS-based Galaxy instances for hands-on training.

Nomination, Voting and Topic Selection

Topics were nominated and then voted on by the community. The Training Day schedule reflects community interest and has been structured so that as many people as possible can attend all the sessions they were interested in.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the nomination and voting process.

Software Carpentry Boot Camp

We are happy to announce that a Software Carpentry Boot Camp has been scheduled for 3-4 July (immediately following GCC2013), also at the University of Oslo. Software Carpentry Boot Camps are example-driven workshops on basic computing skills. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions.