The 2014 Galaxy Community Conference will start with a Training Day on June 30, followed by two full days of accepted talks, keynotes, lightning talks, poster sessions, birds-of-a-feather sessions, and networking time.

As in past years, talks will cover a wide range of biology, bioinformatics, and informatics. Talks will be grouped and scheduled in sessions focusing on particular topics.

Day 0: Training Day, June 30

The 2014 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2014) will start on June 30 with a Training Day featuring parallel tracks, each with several multiple-hour workshops.

Topics were nominated and then voted on by the Galaxy Community. There are 15 sessions covering 12 topics, offered in 5 parallel tracks. Workshops are hands-on and participants will be strongly encouraged to bring a laptop and follow along. Workshop content and prerequisites are described on the Training Day page.

Time	Barber Room 302	Salon A Room 303	Salon B Room 303	Salon C Room 303	Multipurpose Room 324
8:00	Registration Opens and Catered Breakfast
9:00	Visualization of NGS data Jeremy Goecks & Aysam Guerler	Raisins & Rabbit Turds: NGS Quality Control with Galaxy Tom Bair & Jennifer Jackson	Galaxy Internals: Flow control within Galaxy James Taylor	Galaxy installation and administration Nate Coraor & John Chilton	Training with Galaxy: a Genome Assembly Example Simon Gladman & Andrew Lonie
11:30	Lunch Sponsored by EMC Isilon
12:30	Galaxy on a Cluster - User and Project Management Nikolay Vazov & Katerina Michalickova	Galaxy Automation: Using the API Dannon Baker & Carl Eberhard	Tool Development from bright idea to toolshed - Designing a Galaxy Tool Greg Von Kuster, Björn Grüning & Peter Cock	RNA-Seq Analysis with Galaxy and the Tuxedo Suite Saskia Hiltemann, Youri Hoogstrate & Hailiang (Leon) Mei	3D Genome Analysis with Galaxy Jonas Paulsen, Tonje Lien Gulbrandsen, Morten Johansen & Karen Reddy
3:00	Break
3:30	RNA-Seq Analysis with Galaxy and Alternative Tools Saskia Hiltemann, Youri Hoogstrate & Hailiang (Leon) Mei	Tool Development from bright idea to toolshed - Data Managers JJ Johnson & Dan Blankenberg	Visualization of NGS data Jeremy Goecks and Aysam Guerler	Scriptable Bioinformatics Cloud Infrastructures with Cloud BioLinux, CloudMan & Galaxy Ntino Krampis, Enis Afgan, Ravi Sanka, Brad Chapman	Galaxy on a Cluster - User and Project Management Nikolay Vazov & Katerina Michalickova
6:00	Break
6:15	Dinner (on your own) / Birds-of-a-Feather Flock 1
10:00	Finish

Day 1: Main Meeting, July 1

The first day of the conference will feature accepted talks and posters. The first day will also include a lightning talk session.

Time	Topic
8:00	Registration Opens and Catered Breakfast
9:00-9:15	Welcome & Opening
9:15-10:30	**Session 1** Moderator: [Karen Reddy](http://biolchem.bs.jhmi.edu/pages/facultydetail.aspx?FID=343), [Johns Hopkins University](http://jhu.edu/) 9:15 Keynote:Transcriptomes and Exomes: Computational Challenges of NGS Data Steven Salzberg, Biostatistics and Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 10:00 Accepted Talks 10:00 The Galaxy framework as a unifying bioinformatics solution for multi-omic data analysis Pratik D. Jagtap, University of Minnesota 10:15 iReport: HTML Reporting in Galaxy Saskia Hiltemann, Erasmus University Medical Center
10:30-11:00	Break
11:00-12:20	**Session 2** Moderator: [Hailiang (Leon) Mei](http://wiki.data.dtls.nl/index.php/User:Leon_Mei), [Leiden University Medical Center](http://lumc.nl/) 11:00 Accepted Talks 11:00 Galaxy Deployment on Heterogenous Hardware Carrie Ganote, National Center for Genome Analysis Support 11:20 Connecting Galaxy to tools with alternative storage and compute models Brad Chapman, Bioinformatics Core, Harvard School of Public Health 11:35 A journal’s experiences of reproducing published data analyses using Galaxy Peter Li, GigaScience 11:55 Enabling Dynamic Science with Flexible Infrastructure Anushka Brownley, Product Manager and Senior Scientific Consultant Aaron Gardner, Senior Scientific Consultant BioTeam Gold Sponsor Presentation
12:15-1:15	Lunch Sponsored by BioTeam
1:15-2:30	**Session 3** Moderator: [Liisa Koski](https://www.linkedin.com/pub/liisa-koski/70/164/b0b), [BASF Plant Science](http://www.basf.com/plantscience) 1:15 State of the Galaxy Anton Nekrutenko and James Taylor, Galaxy Project 1:50 Update on Ion Torrent Sequencing – Accurate, Long Reads Mike Lelivelt Director of Bioinformatics and Software Products, Ion Torrent, part of Life Technologies Platinum Sponsor Presentation
2:30-4:00	Sponsor and Vendor Exhibition and Poster Session 1 (odd numbered posters)
4:00-5:30	**Session 4** Moderator: [Ravi Madduri](http://www.mcs.anl.gov/person/ravi-madduri), [Argonne National Laboratory](http://www.anl.gov/), and [University of Chicago](http://www.uchicago.edu/) 4:00 Accepted Talks 4:00 The Galaxy Tool Shed: A Framework for Building Galaxy Tools Greg von Kuster, Penn State University 4:20 Integrating the NCBI BLAST+ suite into Galaxy Peter Cock, The James Hutton Institute 4:35 deepTools: a flexible platform for exploring deep-sequencing data Björn Grüning, University of Freiburg 4:50 Lightning Talks, Session 1 Visualising Proteomics Data in Galaxy Ira Cooke, Latrobe University Building a scalable Galaxy cluster for biomedical research in The Netherlands David van Enckevort, University Medical Center Groningen Mississippi: a galaxy server centered on small RNA analysis Marius van den Beek, Drosophile.org, CNRS and University Pierre-et-Marie-Curie A Galaxy-Based framework for online streaming data analytics in Heart Rate Variability Analysis C Zarbo, Predictive Models for Biomedicine & Environment - Fondazione Bruno Kessler Ebiogenouest régional initiative : a use case for the structuration of the biologists community Yvan Le Bras, CNRS, IRISA-INRIA Intergalactic travel: Sending usegalaxy.org through the wormhole Nate Coraor, Galaxy Team, Penn State University
5:30-5:45	Break
5:45-10:00	Dinner (on your own) Birds-of-a-Feather Flock 2
10:00	Finish

Day 2: Main Meeting, July 2

The second and final day of the conference will feature more accepted talks and posters. The second day will also have a lightning talk session, and the conference dinner

Time	Topic
8:00	Registration Opens and Catered Breakfast
9:00-9:10	Welcome
9:10-10:25	**Session 5** Moderator: [Mohammad Heydarian](http://epigenetics.jhu.edu/?section=personnelPages&personID=26), [Johns Hopkins University](http://jhu.edu/) 9:10 Accepted Talks 9:10 The GCC2014 Hackathon Dannon Baker, Brad Chapman, John Chilton, Kyle Ellrott, and GCC2014 Hackathon Participants 9:30 More Options, Less Time: Streamlining Access to Reference Datasets Daniel Blankenberg, Penn State University 9:45 Building More Powerful Galaxy Workflows with Dataset Collections John Chilton, Penn State University 10:05 An Appliance for Life Science Research: Isilon, Penguin and GalaxyPatrick Combes Senior Solution Architect for Life Sciences, EMC Isilon Gold Sponsor Presentation
10:25-10:55	Break
10:55-12:15	**Session 6** Moderator: [Tom Bair](http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/humangenetics/biostatistics/), [Univeristy of Iowa](http://uiowa.edu/) 10:55 Accepted Talks 10:55 Lab Specimen Tracking with Galaxy Martin Čech, Penn State University 11:10 The Munich NGS-FabLab for medical sequence data Sebastian Schaaf, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), and Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) 11:25 Galaxydx - A Web-server dedicated to diagnosis data analysis Vivien DESHAIES and Alban LERMINE, Institut Curie and Mines ParisTech 11:40 Using Galaxy and Globus to deliver Science as a Service Ravi K Madduri, Argonne National Laboratory, and University of Chicago 11:55 SGI UV: Harnessing the Big Brain Platform for Galaxy James Reaney Senior Director, Research Markets, SGI Gold Sponsor Presentation
12:15-1:15	Lunch Sponsored by SGI
1:15-2:35	**Session 7** Moderator: [Jessica Kissinger](http://mango.ctegd.uga.edu/jkissingLab/), [University of Georgia](http://uga.edu/) 1:15 Accepted Talks 1:15 Building a virtual research environment with Galaxy Olivier Inizan, Mikael Loaec, URGI-INRA 1:30 The Australian Genomics Virtual Laboratory Andrew Lonie, University of Melbourne 1:45 Galaxy on the GenomeCloud : Yet another on-demand Galaxy cloud, but only powered by Apache CloudStack Youngki Kim, GenomeCloud 2:00 Test-driven Evaluation of Galaxy Scalability on the Cloud Nuwan Goonasekera, University of Melbourne 2:15 Bioinformatics on AWS: New and Noteworthy FeaturesAngel Pizarro Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services Training Day Sponsor Presentation
2:35-4:05	Sponsor and Vendor Exhibition and Poster Session 2 (even numbered posters)
4:05-5:30	**Session 8** Moderator: [Jeremy Goecks](/people/jeremy-goecks/), [George Washington University](http://www.gwu.edu/) 4:05 Lightning Talks, Session 2 Plan for Galaxy based Chip-exo Analysis platform Bongsoo Park, Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation, The Pennsylvania State University BeeGFS: Accelerating the access to BLAST and Galaxy Indices Björn Grüning, Bioinformatics Uni Freiburg Less talking, more doing: Crowd-sourcing the integration of Galaxy with a high-performance computing cluster Michael Crusoe, Michigan State University Running and maintaining a reliable production Galaxy server Shane Sturrock, New Zealand Genomics Ltd Private BLAST: Using Galaxy Gilda Le Corguillé, Abims SNPedia Michael Cariaso, KeyGene Galaxy: Farm to Federation Kyle Ellrott, UC Santa Cruz Galaxy Docker Containers: Docker, Docker, Docker Björn Grüning, Bioinformatics Uni Freiburg Galaxy Search API Kyle Ellrott, UC Santa Cruz 5:20 Closing
5:30-5:45	Break
5:45-7:00	Birds-of-a-Feather Flock 3
7:00	Conference Dinner Sponsored by Ion Torrent

Birds of a Feather (BoF) Gatherings

There is no better place than a Galaxy Community Conference to meet and learn from others doing high-throughput biology. GCC2014 will include Birds of a Feather (BoF) meetups throughout the event, including times each day that are specifically set aside for BoF flocking. Birds of a Feather meetups are informal gatherings where participants group together based on common interests.

If you have an idea for a Birds-of-a-Feather gathering then please add it to the list of BoFs. The event organizers will fully promote all meetups on all topics.