Plant and Animal Genome XXIII Conference

January 10 - 14, 2015

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It's not just the data, it's the analysis; - Why a Biology Cyberinfrastructure is the Best Way to Meet the Challenges of Large Datasets

This workshop is for biologists who are working with large data sets. It will feature talks, tutorials, and demos that will help you use free, NSF-funded resources (#DBI-1265383) for a variety of data-intensive analyses (e.g. genome assembly and annotation, RNA-Seq, image analysis, GWAS, geospatial etc.). Users with limited bioinformatics experience, or experienced users who need access to greater HPC capacity will both benefit from attending. Whether you’re just getting started with high-throughput sequencing, or have been working with biological big data for years - data analysis and management are usually the most challenging aspects of investigation. Some challenges are obvious up front (“my files are too large to share”); some challenges appear later on (“I can’t replicate because metadata is missing or my previous software has disappeared”) – working with cyberinfrastructure can help solve these challenges and more. In this workshop we’ll cover the platforms, tools, and services developed by the iPlant Collaborative and demonstrate how research communities studying arthropods, microbes, animals are using them. The workshop is targeted at anyone working with large datasets and will • Overview of available resources (data storage/sharing, web interfaces, cloud computing) • “Get started” demos on tools, platforms, and intro to RNA-Seq analysis • Presentations by researchers who have used used these tools to solve problems • How tool developers can make their tools and pipelines more accessible to the research community For more information on related presentations and hand-on bioinformatics and developer tutorials at this year’s PAG, please visit www.iplantc.org/pag2015