Hi all, I am please announce that the 4th MGED (Microarray Gene Expression Data Society) programming jamboree will be taking place at Stanford University, between December 6th and 10th, 2002. The first day is intended as a tutorial to educate people about the MIAME standard, which indicates what information should be recorded about a microarray experiment, and MAGE, which consists of an Object Model, an XML format, and a software toolkit. Nature, Science, Cell and the Lancet recently adopted MIAME as a standard which microarray papers should strive for. The rest of the tutorial will be devoted towards improving the software toolkit, for which Perl, Java and Python versions exist, at various stages of maturity. There is also intended to be a C++ toolkit, though not much has happened on that front yet. We also hope to develop use cases for as much of the model as possible during the jamboree, to ease its adoption. The web page announcing the jamboree is at: http://www.dnachip.org/mged/ The driving directions aren't quite accurate yet..... The best (though not necessarily cheapest) hotels, in terms of location, are the Sheraton in Palo Alto, and the Cardinal. There is a short registration form, so I can get an idea of the number of attendees, so I can get an appropriate room for the tutorial day. For the jamboree proper, we will be limited to 24 Net connections, though everyone doesn't need to be online all the time. To be able to give you an IP address, Stanford does need the hardware address of your laptop's ethernet card, so please put that in the registration form if you're intending on taking part in the jamboree. Look forward to seeing you, and please let me know any suggestions you may have, Cheers, Gavin ___________________________________________________________ Gavin Sherlock Dept. of Genetics Center for Clinical Sciences Research 269 Campus Drive, Room 2255b, Stanford, CA 94305-5166