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[Gmod-ajax] Letters of support for JBrowse?

[Ian H. <ih...@be...>]

Dear JBrowse users and lurkers,

We are currently applying for renewal of our JBrowse funding from NIH.
Although we were funded last time around, our budget was significantly
cut. It's a testament to Mitch's talents that we were still able to
develop something useful, but it's also true that features had to be
dropped from our initial plan because NIH cut the budget by ~15%.

This is all by way of leading up to a plea for letters of support. If
we're to get continued funding, and support JBrowse to meet all the
requests that you have justifiably demanded, it's absolutely critical
that we demonstrate an overwhelming demand for JBrowse from the user
community -- that means you.

Please, please, please would you consider writing a letter of support
for JBrowse this week? We would like to avoid templated form letters,
but some good points to mention would be:

-- your research (an indication of the diversity of JBrowse-assisted
investigations would be extremely helpful)

-- why you chose JBrowse over other genome browsers (and why you love it...)

-- how you would benefit from further development of JBrowse (one of the
pillars of our proposal is to make JBrowse more extensible, so that many
of the requested features can be implemented in a decentralized way, so
feel free to go nuts and list the features you would like to implement)

Some of the things we propose to add to JBrowse:
-- scalability (SNPs, nextgen sequencing data, facilities to search and
display hundreds/thousands of annotation tracks)
-- parallelism (cloud deployment)
-- extensibility (custom tracks/glyphs/features/menus/etc)
-- portability (all desktop browsers, plus iPhone and Android)
-- tagging, commenting, GUI-assisted track editing, more wiki-like
features (track upload, integration with MediaWiki/EcoliWiki/etc), and
other social networking-like features

We need letters of support by the end of the week (Friday October 23rd).
I know these things can seem like a hassle but it really won't take long
-- about the same time as it would take to write a help email to this
list. And, again, it's absolutely critical if we are to secure continued
funding for the project.


Thanks!
Ian

Re: [Gmod-ajax] Letters of support for JBrowse?

[Ian H. <ih...@be...>]

I completely neglected to mention that the JBrowse renewal will also
provide funding support for the high-quality GMOD Help Desk service that
we have all come to know and love... yet another reason to write!

Also, in another subproject of the same grant, we plan to develop a
JBrowse version of the GBrowse_syn synteny viewer developed by Sheldon
McKay, so you can browse syntenic regions of homologous genomes
side-by-side.

Again, anything you can write would be very helpful in keeping JBrowse
going.

Best wishes,
Ian


> Dear JBrowse users and lurkers,
> 
> We are currently applying for renewal of our JBrowse funding from NIH.
> Although we were funded last time around, our budget was significantly
> cut. It's a testament to Mitch's talents that we were still able to
> develop something useful, but it's also true that features had to be
> dropped from our initial plan because NIH cut the budget by ~15%.
> 
> This is all by way of leading up to a plea for letters of support. If
> we're to get continued funding, and support JBrowse to meet all the
> requests that you have justifiably demanded, it's absolutely critical
> that we demonstrate an overwhelming demand for JBrowse from the user
> community -- that means you.
> 
> Please, please, please would you consider writing a letter of support
> for JBrowse this week? We would like to avoid templated form letters,
> but some good points to mention would be:
> 
> -- your research (an indication of the diversity of JBrowse-assisted
> investigations would be extremely helpful)
> 
> -- why you chose JBrowse over other genome browsers (and why you love it...)
> 
> -- how you would benefit from further development of JBrowse (one of the
> pillars of our proposal is to make JBrowse more extensible, so that many
> of the requested features can be implemented in a decentralized way, so
> feel free to go nuts and list the features you would like to implement)
> 
> Some of the things we propose to add to JBrowse:
> -- scalability (SNPs, nextgen sequencing data, facilities to search and
> display hundreds/thousands of annotation tracks)
> -- parallelism (cloud deployment)
> -- extensibility (custom tracks/glyphs/features/menus/etc)
> -- portability (all desktop browsers, plus iPhone and Android)
> -- tagging, commenting, GUI-assisted track editing, more wiki-like
> features (track upload, integration with MediaWiki/EcoliWiki/etc), and
> other social networking-like features
> 
> We need letters of support by the end of the week (Friday October 23rd).
> I know these things can seem like a hassle but it really won't take long
> -- about the same time as it would take to write a help email to this
> list. And, again, it's absolutely critical if we are to secure continued
> funding for the project.
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> Ian
>