XSEDE12

BOF: Supporting Genomics and other Biological Research

Abstract: Are you spending more time and resources working with biologists? Are you inundated with ‘omics; genomics, proteomics, metabolomics – what about ‘seq’s; RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, and who-knows-what-seq? How is that working out for you? Want to talk about it? 

Increasingly biologists and biomedical researchers are interacting with high performance computing resources. This session is for HPC professionals in campus bridging, people tasked with recruiting and interacting with biologists, and/or systems administrators who are supporting a growing number of bioinformatic applications. We will consider how to meet the computing needs of life scientists by discussing topics such as using Galaxy to support HPC clusters, archiving raw biological data, and dealing with the heterogeneity of bioinformatic applications.