DAS Workshop 2012

Title: DAS Workshop 2012
Date: 27-29 February 2012
Venue: EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK
Organisers: Jonathan Warren
Registration Opens: 12 December 2011
Registration Deadline: 10 February 2012 - 12:00

DAS is an important system for exchanging and viewing of biological data, with more than 1300 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.

Course Overview

Is it right for me?

The format of the workshop this year is different to previous years: People new to DAS will likely want to attend the first day only, and the 2nd and 3rd days will be for DAS developers who wish to update their clients to use the latest verions of DAS, or update their server implementations, or work on new applications of DAS.

It is expected that anyone who attends any of the days of the workshop, will know at least one of the following programming languages - PERL, Java or Javascript.

What will I learn?

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

What will it cover?

• The first day is a practical day where you can learn how to work with DAS
• What DAS commands look like
• How to request via Perl/Java
• How to set up a DAS server
• How to get a list from available servers from the DAS registry
• The second and third days this year will be a hackathon, and is for DAS client developers to collaborate on projects and code related to DAS

Programme

The programme is currently under construction, however, for an idea of the likely content and times you can view the preliminary schedule using the following link:

Click here to view the 2012 DAS programme

Registration

Registration for this workshop is free and includes lunches, tea and coffee for the first two days, plus an evening meal at the Red Lion Whittlesford (next to the Holiday Inn Hotel), on the first evening. You will need to pay for your own travel and accommodation.

We recommend staying at the Holiday Inn Express Duxford (Whittlesford), as a mini-bus will be provided to and from the campus. If you would like to book a room at the Holiday Inn Express Duxford (Whittlesford), please contact Amy Hardy at Hotel Res, or telephone: 0845 0200 350 and mention the EBI DAS workshop.

Due to limited spaces, please ensure that you book your accommodation as soon as possible. Participants that are not able to catch the mini-bus from the Holiday Inn Duxford (Whittlesford) will need to make their own arrangements for travel.

Register here