<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2017 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2017)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">26-30 June 2017</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Montpellier, France</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://gcc2017.sciencesconf.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://gcc2017.sciencesconf.<wbr>org/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://gcc2017.sched.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://gcc2017.sched.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">--</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The </span><a href="https://gcc2017.sciencesconf.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Galaxy Community Conference (GCC)</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> brings together researchers working in and supporting data intensive life science research. There is no better place to share your work and learn from others that are addressing diverse questions and facing common challenges in data intensive biology. GCC participants work across the tree of life, around the world, and represent universities, research organizations, industry, medical schools and research hospitals.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">GCC2017 will be in Montpellier, France, 26-30 June and features </span><a href="https://gcc2017.sched.com/overview/type/Conference" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">two days of presentations, discussions, poster sessions, lightning talks, computer demos, keynotes, and birds-of-a-feather meetups</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, all about data-intensive biology and the tools that support it. GCC2017 also features </span><a href="https://gcc2017.sciencesconf.org/page/hackathon" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">data and coding hackathons</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and </span><a href="https://gcc2017.sched.com/overview/type/Training" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">two days of training</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> covering 16 different topics.  GCC2017 will be held at </span><a href="http://www.montpellier-events.com/en/The-Corum/Presentation" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Le Corum Conference Centre</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> in the heart of </span><a href="https://gcc2017.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/2" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Montpellier</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, just 10km from the Mediterranean.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://gcc2017.sciencesconf.org/page/registration" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Registration closes 16 June</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.  Costs start at 75€ per day for postdocs and students.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you work in data intensive life science research then GCC2017 is an ideal opportunity to present your work. </span><a href="https://gcc2017.sciencesconf.org/page/submit" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Lightning talk</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdRCs97OWt47qmMxWZAtSV3TTLJ24IhW0m2lHGPLiqJU0Xkzw/viewform" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">birds-of-a-feather</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> submission are still open, and there is limited space available for </span><a href="https://gcc2017.sciencesconf.org/page/submit" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">late poster and computer demo submissions</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">About Galaxy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://galaxyproject.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Galaxy</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is an open, web-based platform for data-intensive biomedical analysis used by tens of thousands of researchers around the world.  It supports ad hoc exploration and analysis through scalable and repeatable data analysis pipelines for large research studies. Galaxy is available in over 90 free and publicly accessible web servers, on public and national cloud infrastructures, and is locally installed at hundreds, if not thousands, of research organisations around the world.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;f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