User Support Program
The User Support Program is charged with facilitating user interactions with the JGI. This group manages the application processes and peer review for the Community Sequencing, Laboratory Science, and Microbial Genome programs. Once proposals are approved for sequencing, the program has responsibility for all aspects of project management, including project planning and initiation, communication of progress or problems with collaborators, coordination of data analysis, and project closeout.
The Project Management Office comprises managers from LANL and the PGF. The User Support Program also coordinates the annual user meeting, which this year will bring more than 400 of JGI’s users and potential users together with JGI staff to hear state-of-the-art talks on all aspects of sequence-based science as well as tutorials on JGI processes, user interfaces, and genomic tools such as the Integrated Microbial Genome tools.
Finally, the User Support Program serves as a conduit
for feedback from users to the JGI through periodic user surveys,
end-of-project questionnaires, and interaction with the
Users Executive Committee.
