Agenda

• Update on Sheldon McKay's job
• Update from Casey Dunn/Stephen Smith work
• Discussion of upcoming workshop

Notes

NESCent Workshop Outline

Title: Using iPlant Infrastructure for Sequence Analysis and Phylogenetics

Dates: November 15th-16th 2011

Content: Three self-contained, half-day modules

1. Introduction to iPlant cyberinfrastructure
  a. Staging data
  b. Using atmosphere
  c. Using the discovery environment

2. High Throughput sequencing workflows in the discovery environment
  a. RNA seq
  b. Variant detection
  c. Assemblies

3. Phylogenetics and comparative methods in the discovery environment
  a. Phylogenetics workflows
  b. Post tree analyses/comparative methods