2012 OSU Summer Workshop in Bioinformatics

2012 OSU Summer Workshop in Bioinformatics

Organizers:

Mark Fishbein, Peter R. Hoyt, Dana Brunson, Rakesh Kaundal

Local Points of Contact:

Mark Fishbein, Peter R. Hoyt, Dana Brunson, Rakesh Kaundal, Terri Rawlings

Instructors:

  • Peter Hoyt, Dana Brunson (OSU)
  • Haibao Tang (JCVI)
  • Eric Lyons (UA/iPlant)
  • Dan Stanzione, Matt Vaughn (TACC/iPlant)

Dates:

August 13-17, 2012

Location:

Bennett Hall Computer Lab, OSU, Stilwater OK

Resources:

Workshop Resources Page

Goal

To provide an interactive, hands-on training on bioinformatics tools and cyberinfrastructure needed to explore entangled genomes.

Pre-Workshop Homework

1. Please test your iPlant credentials to ensure you have access. You can log-in from user.iplantcollaborative.org, click the button "iPlant Login"

  • Once authenticated, click the "My Services" link
  • Under "My Services" please ensure you have access to: Atmosphere and the Discovery Environment. Enter "RNASeq" when prompted for a justification for your Atmosphere allocation. You can also request access to other services at this link
  • If you have account problems, please email support@iplantcollaborative.org

2. Please check your email and this wiki prior to the workshop, as this is the way we will communicate any important changes.

3. Windows users, make sure you have Java installed (http://java.com/en/download/installed.jsp)

Workshop Overview

Here is an overview of the workshop instructors, sponsors, participants and schedule.  Please do not print; you'll receive a hard copy on Monday morning (8 am!)

Daily Schedules

Day

Themes

Instructors

Monday

  • Introduction to 
    • iPlant Discovery Environment
    • iPlant Atmosphere
    • OSU Pistol Pete
  • NGS Data QC and Processing
  • Data movement
  • Scripting workflows

Matt Vaughn
Dana Brunson

Tuesday

  • Genome assembly
  • SNP functional analysis

Haibao Tang

Wednesday

  • Comparative Genomics
  • Web service APIs
  • Metagenomic analyses

Eric Lyons
Haibao Tang
Dan Stanzione
Matt Vaughn

Thursday

  • Atmosphere: An Open Science Cloud
  • Metagenomics with MEGAN

Matt Vaughn
Peter Hoyt

Friday

  • Student presentations on Metagenomics
  • Differential expression analysis

Matt Vaughn

Workshop Notes

Here are a few important links that you may wish to refer to during and after the workshop:

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