Intended audience:• bioinformatics analysts working on genomics interested in a cloud solution for data analysis• biological scientist and investigators with basic bioinformatics or programming skills are welcome• Open to the non-NIH and public, but event is on the NIH campus Background:As many of you may be aware, the NCI has sponsored the development of three Cancer Genomics Cloud Pilot projects meant to democratize access to large datasets like TCGA as well as to provide flexible tools for querying and analyzing existing and new data (including your own datasets). This is the second of a series of workshops to introduce the Cancer Genomics Cloud Pilots. In this workshop, we will present an overview of the Broad Institute’s FireCloud platform. This session will include a walkthrough that is optionally hands-on, so bring your laptop to get the most out of the session. Proposed Agenda: 1:00-2:00 Overview of NCI Cloud Pilots and Introduction of FireCloud - Sean Davis, NCI 2:15-3:30 Hands-on - Using the FireCloud for Analysis - Steve Tsang and Durga Addepalli, Attain, CBIIT, NCI 3:30-4:00 Questions and Discussion
(Previous workshops on the Seven Bridges Genomics platform can be found here: http://teamcgc.nci.nih.gov.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com) Share this event on Facebook and Twitter We hope you can make it!Cheers,NCI IRP Cloud Pilot Team ------------------------------ Event Summary: ------------------------------ Event: NCI FireCloud Introduction & Hands-on Session Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM (EDT) Location: <b>NIH Building 37</b><br />Room 2041/2107<br />37 Convent Drive<br />Bethesda, MD 20892<br /> ------------------------------ Event Details: ------------------------------ Intended audience:• bioinformatics analysts working on genomics interested in a cloud solution for data analysis• biological scientist and investigators with basic bioinformatics or programming skills are welcome• Open to the non-NIH and public, but event is on the NIH campus Background:As many of you may be aware, the NCI has sponsored the development of three Cancer Genomics Cloud Pilot projects meant to democratize access to large datasets like TCGA as well as to provide flexible tools for querying and analyzing existing and new data (including your own datasets). This is the second of a series of workshops to introduce the Cancer Genomics Cloud Pilots. In this workshop, we will present an overview of the Broad Institute’s FireCloud platform. This session will include a walkthrough that is optionally hands-on, so bring your laptop to get the most out of the session. Proposed Agenda: 1:00-2:00 Overview of NCI Cloud Pilots and Introduction of FireCloud - Sean Davis, NCI 2:15-3:30 Hands-on - Using the FireCloud for Analysis - Steve Tsang and Durga Addepalli, Attain, CBIIT, NCI 3:30-4:00 Questions and Discussion (Previous workshops on the Seven Bridges Genomics platform can be found here: http://teamcgc.nci.nih.gov.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com) ------------------------------ Hosted By: ------------------------------ NCI IRP Cloud Pilot Team ------------------------------ Register Online: ------------------------------ More information and online registration are available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nci-firecloud-introduction-hands-on-session-tickets-27137281339?ref=enivte001&invite=MTA2MzAwNzYvQklPSU5GTy1HRU5FUkFMLU5DSUBMSVNULk5JSC5HT1YvMA%3D%3D ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Collect event fees online with Eventbrite http://www.eventbrite.com
