 go. Good afternoon everybody this is the second day of the Galaxy Community Conference here in Minneapolis. We have Keri Kanot here from Indiana University who was also the chairperson for session number nine which was on development to talks. I made a very good chair I just said. And Keri I just wanted to know first of all thanks for coming to Minneapolis attending this person. Is this your first time here? Yeah. Okay all right. So we'll talk about that more later in the extended version of this one. Yeah. Question. In the chair session that you chair, which was the most interesting talk that you that you found? So for me the most interesting talk was probably the talk that NS Afghan gave. And they have the name here. This was open bio reference data catalog for Galaxy and Bioconductor. And I think that it really resonated with me because I have tried to get this like reference data attached to our Galaxy and the sys admins would not mount random file systems for me that came from remote CBM that best repositories. So it's something that I was like latching on to because I really wish it had happened you know like two years ago. You know when I still was like working on the reference data part. So I was like yes that's useful. Any other thoughts that you found interesting in your session? Yeah. Luke Sargent gave a talk on scaling Galaxy on the cloud with data local cancer analytics on Oz AWS. And you know for me I'm coming from the HPC world. Galaxy is local with the back end being the actual HPC machine. Everything is there. And in that kind of situation users had to bring their data sets to me. Right. And sometimes these would be huge files. R&E seek data sets from Loblolly pine or whatever like huge eukaryotic organisms. And so that was a real struggle for us going through the Galaxy system. You know for other kinds of data movement on the like bare metal we could use other like things. But for the Galaxy part it was really hard to move the data. So that whole move compute because it's a lot faster to move around to where the data resides is kind of attractive. And how many Galaxy conferences have you done? Is this your? Oh my gosh. Which was it first? Baltimore. Baltimore was the first one I went to. Is that 2014? 2014. Yes. So I've been to everyone since then. One question for you now that you're attending this in person the last year in online. Yeah. What do you think the people who are attending online are missing? A lot. I miss them. I mean like I wanted to see some people who was like like faces and just random weird conversations, right? Like you don't get to just joke and have that like personal connection. And even the birds of a feather I think were really tough because you have this contingent of Zoom people and then people move and it's just like a divide. It's a little hard to overcome. So yeah if you're asking me is like the hybrid model like workable? Yes in a pinch. I think you know it's a good option because if you can't travel you can't travel. But I think if I could at all swing it I would be in person. And the last question you came to Minneapolis first time. What are your expectations and how is it changing? Oh, so I had no idea that Minneapolis was a big city. I see these skyscrapers I'm like oh my gosh okay that's what we're doing. Yeah cool. Because I was looking at the map I'm like oh there's a college you know and I see like all these businesses but it's not 3D. You know so I thought that was cool and you know I very much love the outdoors so I drove here with my kayak and I'm like okay Minneapolis has a big river I am going to check that out. There are lakes as well. Yes and there are a lot of people who live on the lakes as well. I can't wait. Yeah also thanks Keri. Thanks for sharing the session. Also an excellent talk and thanks for being here in person. Thank you for hosting. I know it's a lot of work. With that we'll sign off and we'll look forward to the rest of the interviews. Thanks Keri.