Bioinformatics is a multidisciplinary field that develops methods for turning the so-called biological big data into knowledge. Although most problems in biology are not as embarrassingly parallelizable as the physics codes that HPC systems are usually designed for, this has been starting to change in recent years. Metagenomics is an emerging field in bioinformatics that investigates microbes inhabiting oceans, soils, the human body, etc. with sequencing technologies. In this course, we will first tune your HPC knowledge/skills towards bioinformatics computing and then a typical metagenomics pipeline will be explored to introduce common tools used in bioinformatic analysis and to show how they can be run in an HPC environment.
This workshop will be delivered in 3 sessions:
- Session 1: Monday, June 6, 2022 from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
- Session 2: Wednesday, June 8, 2022 from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
- Session 3: Friday, June 10, 2022 from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
- Teacher: Sridhar Ravichandran
- Teacher: Armin Sobhani