2016 04 11 CyVerse Training Day - EMBL-ABR

2016 04 11 CyVerse Training Day - EMBL-ABR

Organizers:

V. Schneider, J. Williams

Local Point of Contact:

Christina Hall

Trainers:

Jason Williams

Date:

April 11, 2016

Location:

Lab-14 Seminar Space, VLSCI –

The University of Melbourne 700 Swanston St (cnr Grattan St),

Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia

 

Required Workshop Prep

1. CyVerse Account

  • Get your free account at http://user.iplantcollaborative.org/ . Please register with an institutional email account as only this will give you access to the CyVerse cloud service Atmosphere (see next bullet).

2. Atmosphere Access

  • Once you have your account, go to http://user.iplantcollaborative.org/ and log in. Under "Apps and Services," scroll down to  "Available Services" and request access to Atmosphere. Indicate that you are attending a workshop when you are asked for justification. (This will only be granted if you registered for CyVerse using an institutional account; see above.)

3. Laptop

Please bring your own WiFi enabled laptop to the workshop. Make sure your laptop has the following:

4. Pre-Workshop Guide and Homework

  • Download and complete the exercises in the PRE-WORKSHOP PACKET to get the most out of the workshop.

  • Complete this Pre-Workshop Survey

  • Note (4/9): The wiki instructions for iCommands are not rendering properly. If you are setting up iCommands, you will need the following info when prompted.

Prompt

Entry

Prompt

Entry

irodsHost

data.iplantcollaborative.org

port

1247

zone

iplant

irodsUserName

your cyverse username

Current iRODS password

your cyverse password

Instructional Materials

You can download a copy of the workshop packet (CyVerse Toolkit) to follow along:

 Download Workshop Packet

Workshop Program (DAY 1)

slides

Time

Description

Toolkit

Slides

Tutorial

Links

09:00 AM

Arrive / Sign-in / Setup Troubleshooting

 

 

 

Pre-Survey

09:15 AM

Welcome - Presenter/Participant Self-Introductions

 

slides

 

PLOS Bioinformatics Competency Paper

09:30 AM

Overview of the CyVerse

 

slides

 

Getting Started with CyVerse

09:45 AM

Managing "Big Data" using the CyVerse Data Store

  • Using Cyberduck (p.10)

  • Quick iCommands demo (follow)

  • Importing files via URL (follow)

  • Creating Public links (p.11)

  • Sharing Folders (p.12)

slides

tutorial

Data Store Overview

10:30 AM

Coffee Break

 

 

 

 

10:45 AM

Navigate the CyVerse Discovery Environment (DE)

 

  • MUSCLE analysis (p.16-17)

  • Simple upload/download

  • Moving, renaming, creating

  • Adding metadata (follow)

  • Searching (follow)

slides

tutorial

11:15 AM

Workflows and HT-Jobs in the DE.

  • Self-guided (p.18-19)

 

(p.17-18)

DE Manual on Workflows

12:00 PM

Lunch Provided

 

 

 

 

01:00 PM

DNA Subway

(Workflows for Bioinformatics Education)

 

 

 

DNA Subway Website

01:15 PM

Using the DE for RNA-Seq

  • Launching TopHat (p.31-33)

  • Examining outputs (follow)

  • Visualizing alignments (follow)

  • Pseudoalignment methods

slides

 

01:45

Stretch Break

 

 

 

 

02:15 PM

Atmosphere Cloud Computing

  • Launching an instance (p.23)

  • Connecting via VNC (p.24)

  • Desktop sharing via VNC (follow)

  • Connect via SSH (follow)


slides

tutorial

Atmosphere Manual

03:00 PM

Advanced CyVerse Applications

  • Tool integration

  • Bringing your tools with Docker

  • Data Commons: SRA Submission