CyVerse Events at PAG XXV

CyVerse invites you to take part in user-oriented events taking place across several days at this year's Plant and Animal Genome Meeting.

Saturday, January 14^th

Workshop Description

Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) scale research methods to allow large numbers of students to explore open-ended problems. CUREs typically use a common set of biochemical and bioinformatics tools to allow students to obtain novel results within the time-frame of a one or two semester course. This workshop will present practical reports of CUREs in action in different institutional and class settings, as well as data on how CUREs improve student attitudes toward science and retention in STEM disciplines. Projects on DNA barcoding on microbiome analysis use DNA Subway and other computational resources provided by CyVerse, an NSF-funded cyber-infrastructure for biological research (DBI-0735191 and DBI-1265383).

Organizers:  Dave Micklos, Jason Williams - CSHL DNA Learning Center/ CyVerse

Speakers

Abstract

The Data Commons (DC) is a new service offered by CyVerse to support its vision of transforming science through data-driven discovery. The DC strives to build a space where data can live as a searchable, discoverable, and reusable resource. DC development builds on foundational CyVerse infrastructure such as the Data Store, APIs, and user interfaces like the Discovery Environment (DE), while expanding into new areas such as metadata and ontologies, data publication, and federation with external collaborators and repositories. Key components of the Data Commons are the data portal at http://datacommons.cyverse.org/, and newer functions within the DE such as metadata templates, permanent identifier requests, data submissions to NCBI, and a Projects Interface (under development). A key asset of the CyVerse DC is its co-location with CyVerse computational resources, which facilitates data re-use. This presentation will introduce you to features of the Data Commons that are available now and provide a preview of some features under development, with an eye toward how those features can support interoperability of crop phenotype data.

Sunday, January 15^th

Workshop Description

CyVerse has developed cyberinfrastructure (access to software and data management tools, HPC, and support) that enables data-intensive biology. This informal user meeting is designed to get you informed and using the most recent capabilities of the platform and to gather feedback from our users. We will guide attendees through their choice of demos on our capabilities for 1) Data storage/sharing/management; 2)RNA-Seq, Genome Assembly, and other common genomics workflows including Methylation analysis and assembly of PacBio reads. Whether you are a long-time CyVerse/iPlant user, or are just getting introduced, we invite you to stop by, ask questions, or just say hello!

Organizer: Kapeel Chougule and Jason Williams

CyVerse Booth #502 (Open from 3:00PM - 8:30PM)

Monday, January 16^th

• CyVerse Booth #502  (Open from 9:30AM - 5:00PM)

Workshop Description

CyVerse (the successor to iPlant Collaborative) serves the entire life science community by delivering the platforms, tools, and datasets that enable data-driven discovery. This session updates the community on the project's activities including new features and services. Presentations by exemplar users illustrate ways CyVerse is being used by individual investigators and as platform for entire projects. CyVerse provides resources and support for every level of user - from bench-biologists working on their first RNA-Seq project, to collaborations who need the computational support to deliver high-impact science and datasets. CyVerse is funded by the National Science Foundation (DBI-0735191 and DBI-1265383) and provides free, user-friendly access to data storage/management platforms, cloud computing, and high-performance computing. We also provide learning materials, training, and support, including serving open-source developers who want to deliver tools and pipelines to the research community.

Organizer: Jason Williams - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory / CyVerse

Speakers

Workshop Description

Calling all bioinformaticians and bioinformatics enthusiasts! CyVerse is hosting a small get together on a variety of topics relevant to making bioinformatics accessible and open to all communities. We will also have time to cover more questions on the new CyVerse project - specifically how developers can participate and how collaborative science projects can make use of CyVerse. If you are working on a collaborative science projects, have ever contributed code to an open source project, helped with documentation, or trained students and colleagues we'd like to invite you down to this late-night event.

Organizer: Jason Williams, Matt Vaughn

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Tuesday, January 17th

• CyVerse Booth #502 (Open from 9:30AM - 3:00PM)

Visit our Booth (#502)

Come meet with members of the CyVerse team! This is our chance to get to meet our users, reconnect with people who have been to our workshops. See demos of CyVerse tools and services and get your questions answered.

Related workshops, presentations, and posters  

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