2012 06 29 TSW NDSU

2012 06 29 TSW NDSU

Organizers:

411, Sheldon McKay, Jason Williams

Local Point of Contact:

Shahryar F. Kianian

Trainers:

Sheldon McKay, Christos Noutsos, Shannon OliverJason Williams

Date:

12:00PM - 6:00PM on June 29, 9:30AM - 4:00PM on June 30, 2012

Location:

Barry Hall, Rm 260

Goal

To provide an interactive, hands-on training of iPlant Tools and Services so that participants can begin to use iPlant cyberinfrastructure in their research.

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, Discovery Environment, iPlant Data Store. You can also request access to other services here

  • 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.

Workshop Notes

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

Account/Password Problems

iPlant Help and Discussion Forums

General iPlant Support Issues

iPlant Privacy (And other) policies - "Your Data are Your Data"

Agenda

Friday June 29th 

Time

Presentation

Audience/Prerequisites*

Presenter

Slides, Links

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM 

Arrive / Sign-in / Verify iPlant Accounts

N/A

 

 

12:30 PM - 01:00 PM

Welcome - Presenter/Participant Introductions

N/A

Jason Williams

 

01:00 PM - 01:20 PM

An Overview of the iPlant Collaborative

All researchers

Jason Williams

01:20 PM - 01:45 PM

Overview of the iPlant Discovery Environment (DE)

All researchers

Jason Williams

Overview of DE

01:45 PM - 02:15 PM

iPlant Data Store - Managing "Big Data" 

All researchers

Jason Williams

Data Store Overview
Workshop URLS

02:15 PM - 02:30 PM

Break

 


 

02:30 PM - 03:00 PM

Building and Using Workflows Within the DE; Phylogenetics 

All researchers

Sheldon McKay

03:00 PM - 04:15 PM

Using the DE to Examine Differential Expression Within an RNA-seq Dataset

All researchers - Background in
RNA-Seq methods is helpful

Sheldon McKay


RNA-Seq_tutorial
Useful Article

04:15 PM - 4:30 PM

Break

 

 

 

04:30 PM - 05:00 PM

Atmosphere - Custom Cloud Computing

All researchers - Background in
Linux computing helpful

Christos Noutsos

 Atmosphere Overview

05:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Extending the DE for Your Research: Tool Integration and Customization

Intermediate - Background in
bioinformatics/ programming

Sheldon McKay

 

06:00 PM - 06:15 PM

Collaborating with iPlant: Future Projects and Workshop Summary 

All researchers

Sheldon McKay

Saturday June 30th 

Time

Presentation

Audience/Prerequisites*

Presenter

Slides/Links

09:30 AM - 09:40 AM

Installing Java

All of you

 

 

09:40 AM - 11:00 AM

Advanced CHiP-seq in the iPlant Cyberinfrastructure

Intermediate - knowledge of
iPlant Discovery Environment,
CHiP-Seq methods helpful.

Sheldon McKay


ChIP-Seq Tutorial

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

Break

 

 

 

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Topics and Questions in RNA-Seq

All researchers

Sheldon McKay

RNA-Seq_tutorial

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Lunch

 

 

 

01:00 PM - 01:15

Upcoming Features in the DE

All

Shannon Oliver

 

01:15 PM - 01:30 PM

Using XSEDE for Bioinformatics 

Advanced- Background
in Bioinformatics and HPC

Jason Williams

XSEDE Slides

01:30 PM - 02:00 PM

Powered by iPlant - Using the iPlant API 

Intermediate/Advanced - Background
in bioinformatics/ programming

Jason Williams

API Tutorial
API Slides
Jason's Cheat Sheet

02:00 PM - 02:45 PM

iCommands for data transfer

Intermediate/Advanced Background in command line
Linux programming helpful

Christos Noutsos

 

02:45 PM - 03:45 PM

Using Atmosphere to visualize RNA-Seq data

Intermediate/Advanced- Background in RNA-Seq
analysis helpful

Sheldon McKay

Using_cummeRbund_in_Atmosphere
cummeRbund Manual

03:45 PM

Conclusion and Free Form Work

All audiences as needed.

 

 

* Audience/Prerequisites - These prerequisites are meant as helpful suggestions to get the most out of each module. Everyone can attend

any/all modules and are free to follow along (or not) as their own interests and abilities dictate.

Attendee List

First

Last

Email

User Acct

Omar

Al-Azzam

omar.al-azzam@ndsu.edu

X

Aman

Anand

aman.anand@my.ndsu.edu

no acct

Deepika

Arora

deepika.arora@my.ndsu.edu

X

Filippo

Bassi

filippo.bassi@ndsu.edu

X

Ryan

Burciaga

ryan.burciaga@my.ndsu.edu

X

Anne

Denton

anne.denton@ndsu.edu

X

Sandra

Dunckel

sdunckel@ksu.edu

needs Atmo

Morgan

Echeverry-Solarte

morgan.echeverry-solarte@my.ndsu.edu

X

Ahmed

Eldoliefy

ahmed.el-doleify@my.ndsu.edu

needs Atmo

Farhad

Ghavami

farhad.ghavami@ndsu.edu

needs Atmo

David

Horvath

david.horvath@ars.usda.gov

X

Shalu

Jain

shalu.jain@ndsu.edu

needs Atmo

Renata

Jung

renata.jung@ndsu.edu

needs Atmo

Vedbar

Khadka

vskhadka@jacks.sdstate.edu

needs Atmo

Shahryar

Kianian

s.kianian@ndsu.edu

needs Atmo

Ajay

Kumar

ajayguptajammu@gmail.com

needs Atmo

Cindy