iPlant’s Workshop @ CSHL 2013 Plant Genomes & Biotechnology featuring a Gramene Demo

This 1/2-day FREE workshop will take place on Wednesday, December 5 of 2013 from 12 – 5 pm at the Hershey Bldg. (West Conference Rm) of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. It will also be broadcasted online, see details below.

It will cover hands-on examples to get you started doing Genome Assembly, Annotation, and RNA-Seq using tools developed by the iPlant Collaborative, a cyberinfrastructure project funded by the National Science Foundation.

Participants will get hands-on experience with the following iPlant cyberinfrastructure:

Discovery Environment: Simple web portal for managing data, analyses, and workflows. Complex bioinformatics applications can be run without knowing command line programming; users can also integrate their own tools.

Data Store: Scalable, secure, and reliable storage for terabyte-scale data.

Atmosphere: 1-click, on-demand cloud computing.

In addition, short demos of the Gramene and KBase projects will be presented.

Who Should Attend?

Any investigator (PIs, post-docs, grad students, industry users) who is or will be working with large datasets and computation-intensive research questions in the life-sciences (plants and animals!).

More information and online registration at the iPlant website.

All are invited to watch this FREE webinar online by registering here.