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Mutual Education Meeting at TACC November 6^th and 7^th, 2009

iPG2P Grand Challenge, Visualization Working Group

From the plant biology point of view, the goals of the meeting are to:

• present some current plant biology problems to our iPlant and TACC colleagues in computational sciences;
• spell out specific needs for visualization tools to gain insight into those problems;
• respond to the computational experts in our group who will present ideas and plans to meet those needs; and
• jointly formulate action plans for the immediate future, based on the mutual education that has taken place over the course of the meeting.

Meeting Agenda

All times are approximate; interruptions are encouraged.

Day 1:  Friday, November 6^th  (at Visualization Lab, UT Austin, Main Campus in AM; at TACC JJ Pickle Campus in PM)

7:45 AM            All                                    Meet at Hampton Inn NW Arboretum Lobby to carpool to Visualization Lab

8:30 AM            Greg Abram                    Welcome and Introductions

8:40 AM            Ruth Grene                     Some Plant Biology, Many Unanswered Questions, A Wish List for Visualization Tools

9:45 AM            Greg Abram                    Tour of Visualization Lab

10:15 AM          Bjoern Usadel                 Dispalying Pathways

10:45 AM          All                                    Coffee-Snack Break (there’s a snack bar near the Vis Lab)

11:00 AM          Eric Lyons                        A Tool for Comparative Genomics, Ideas for Expansion

11:45 AM          All                                    Carpool to TACC/JJ Pickle Campus

12:15 Noon      All                                     Lunch @ TACC (delivered)

1:00 PM           Tom Brutnell                     Next Generation Sequencing, State of the Art, Needs for Visualization Tools: A Case Study            

2:00 PM           Steve Welch                     Modeling and Associated Visualization Needs

3:00 PM           All                                     Coffee-Snack Break (delivered)                       

4:00 PM           Greg A / Bernice R           Visualization Systems: Examples of Flexible Toolkit Environments 

                                                               Perception, Visualization, and  ViVA (Visual and Visuali Analysis Workbench)

5:00 PM           Ruth G / Greg A               Compilation of Ideas from Day 1

5:30 PM           All                                    Adjourn

6:00 PM           All                                    Meet in Hotel Lobby; carpool to dinner at Roaring Fork (http://www.eddiev.com/)

Day 2: Saturday, November 7^th (at TACC, JJ Pickle Campus)

8:00 AM           Out-of-Towners               Check-out; meet in lobby to carpool to TACC

8:30 AM           Nick Provart                    A Tool for Unifying and Visualizing Functional Genomics Data: Wishes and Plans

9:30 AM           TBA                                Matching Wish Lists to System Requirements (discussion)

10:30 AM         All                                    Coffee-Snack Break (delivered)

10:45 AM         Ruth G / Greg A              What Have We/I Learned and What Is Unclear?

11:30 AM         Ruth G / Greg A              General Discussion and Action Plans Going Forward

12:30 PM         All                                   Adjourn; boxed lunches delivered to eat in or take with