[bioinfo] Field Trip to GO Meeting

[Bruce Schatz]

As mentioned at the CS Bioinformatics meeting yesterday, we 
will be going on our very first field trip next week.  The 
annual Gene Ontology Users meeting is being held in downtown 
Chicago at Northwestern University.  See the previous message 
about data sources for preparation about GO.  There will be 
talks and demos on various classifying and searching tools.  
I will give a talk on the plans for BeeSpace.  It should be a 
good bonding experience and a fun trip!

The logistics are as follows.  We will be taking the train up 
to Chicago to save time and energy, the destination is very 
close to Union Station there.  The City of New Orleans is a 
big nice train, an American Experience if you haven't done 
it.  It leaves Champaign at 610am and arrives Chicago at 900, 
which should leave us enough time to get by taxi to the 
conference for the GO overview lecture at 930am.  The train 
back is at 8pm, which will leave us time for a leisurely 
dinner or shopping in downtown Chicago.  I will arrange for 
taxis on both ends to go to/from the train stations.

Thus, we will meet at *** 5:30 am *** on Thursday October 14
in front of the Illini Student Union on Green Street.  I will 
arrange a taxi to get us to the train station so we can get 
tickets and such.  Please contact me if you cannot make this 
or if you wish to go directly to the train station.  You will 
return at *** 10:30 pm *** the same day, to the Champaign 
Transportation Terminal, which is on University in Champaign 
next to the train bridge just past Urbana.  There is plenty 
of parking if you want to leave your car at the station.

The BeeSpace project will cover all costs.  You need to bring 
a photo id to get onto the train.  The current list of train 
reservations is as follows.  Please send me corrections!
   Qiaozhu Mei
   Jing Jiang
   Azadeh Shakery
   Younhee Ko
   Xu Ling
   Bruce Schatz
   Cheng Zhai substitute: Tao Tao
   Gene Robinson substitute: Moushumi Sarma
   Lei Liu substitute: ? ?

Looking forward to a great experience in bioinformatics...

   Cheers, Bruce