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The National Center for

Genome Analysis Support

Supercomputing 2014

November 17-21, 2014

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Who We Are

• Indiana University

• Carrie Ganote – Bioinformatics Analyst• Le-Shin Wu - PhD Computer Scientist• Tom Doak – PhD Genomicist and Biology Liason• Bill Barnett – Director

• Also Staff at Texas Advanced Computing Center, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

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NCGAS Partners

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• NSF Funded Genomics Projects and Project startups.

• National Cancer Institute Funded Investigators and Others Pursuing Transcriptomics Research

• Members of the IU Life Sciences Research Community

NCGAS Audience

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NCGAS Consulting Services

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Bioinformatics should be available to anyone, regardless of their background in informatics or computer related fields. We help with the following:

Analysis and interpretation of results

Learning to use UNIX

Tools of the trade

Best practices

Experimental design

Software installation Troubleshooting

Letters of commitment for grant proposals

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• Project storage on IU’s Data Capacitor 2

• Long term storage for up to 50 terabytes on IU's Scholarly Data Archive.

• Publication of data sets and final results in the IU ScholarWorks

• Internet2 backbone for fast data transfer

NCGAS Data Services

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• Online training tools at ncgas.org

• Annual Galaxy and Trinity workshops

• Outreach at genomics and computational biology conferences

NCGAS Training and Outreach

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Making IT easier for Biologists

• Web interface to NCGAS resources

• Supports many bioinformatics tools

• Available for both research and instruction.

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• 82 Projects supported, representing more

than $61M in research.

• 51 Training and outreach events, serving

691 people in the last year alone.

• 4.4 out of 5 in user satisfaction.

PTI Technical Report PTI-TR14-005 (http://hdl.handle.net/2022/18513)

NCGAS Productivity

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Host-endosymbiont relationships between filarial nematode and Wolbachia

NCGAS-Supported Science

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Study of complete RNA collection of fruit fly uncovers unprecedented complexity

NCGAS-Supported Science

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North Atlantic Fisheries Decline: Zooplankton

transcriptomes

NCGAS-Supported Science