2013 09 23 TSW Texas A&M

Organizers

Jason Williams, Kranthi Mandadi

Trainers

Jason Williams (CSHL), John Fonner (TACC)

Date

Monday and Tuesday, Sept 23 - 24, 2013

Location

Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843
979-845-7711
Meeting Room: Peterson Building, Room 208

Please Remember to Bring

  • Wi-Fi enabled laptop and power supply:
  1. Please have JAVA installed and enabled (help)
  2. Please have an up-to-date web browser (Recommended Firefox or Safari )

Workshop Notes

Here are a few important links that you may wish to refer to during and after the workshop:

Account/Password Problems

iPlant Help and Discussion Forums

General iPlant Support Issues

iPlant Privacy (And other) policies - "Your Data is Your Data"

Workshop Program (Monday, September 23rd)

Time

Description

Slides

Links

Presenter

09:00 AM

Arrive / Sign-in / Verify iPlant Accounts 

 

Pre-Survey

 

09:30 AM

Welcome - Presenter/Participant Self-Introductions

 

 

All

09:45 AM

Overview of the iPlant Collaborative

Slides

Getting Started with iPlant

Jason

10:00 AM

Overview of the iPlant Discovery Environment (DE)

Slides

DE Manual

Jason

10:45 AM

Coffee Break

 

 

 

11:00 AM

iPlant Data Store - Managing "Big Data"

Slides

Data Store Overview

John

11:45 AM

Workflows in the DE; Phylogenetics Example

Slides

DE Manual on Workflows

John

12:15 PM

Lunch

 

 

 

01:15 PM

Using the DE for RNA-Seq

Slides

Jason

02:15 PM

User Presentation: Transcriptome analyses of Brachypodium distachyon
infected with Panicum mosaic virus.

 

 

 

03:00 PM

Break

 

 

 

03:15 PM

Atmosphere Cloud Computing

Slides

Atmosphere Manual
Demo Accounts

Jason

04:00 PM

Tools for Image Analysis - Phytobisque

Slides

John

04:30 PM

Workshop summary and conclusion

Slides

Post Survey

Jason

Workshop Program (Tuesday, September 24th)

Time

Description

Slides

Links

Presenter

09:30 AM

Visualization of RNA-Seq results in Atmosphere

 

Jason

10:15 AM

Getting started with Annotation: SOAPdeNovo and MAKER

Maker Slides (from Gramene)

Jason

10:45 AM

Break

 

 

 

11:00 AM

Graduate Seminar on CI - Talk and discussion

 

 

John

12:00 PM

Lunch (on your own)

 

 

 

01:00 PM

Advanced CI: iPlant Foundation API

 

John

01:45 PM

iCommands and other Data Store applications: Get started with your own data

 

 

John

02:15 PM - End

Individual consultations

 

 

Jason/John

Attendee List (max: 30)

Name

Research Area

E-mail

Acct Status

Marcos Oliveira

Plant Biol

marcos.oliveira@ag.tamu.edu

X

Veria Alvarado

Plant Biol

veriachavez@yahoo.com

X

JunMyoung Yu

Cell Biol

junmyu@gmail.com

X

Julien Levy

Plant Biol

julienlevy@tamu.edu

X

Fanhong Meng

Plant Biol

fmeng2@gmail.com

X

Pei-cheng Huang

Plant Biol

masonhuang0208@tamu.edu

X

Angelyn Hilton

Plant Biol

angelyn1128@tamu.edu

X

Huan Zhang

Plant Biol

huanzhfly@gmail.com

X

Sreenath Palle

Plant Biol

sreesree14@yahoo.com

X

Mona Damaj

Plant Biol

mbdamaj@ag.tamu.edu

X

Michelle Dominguez

Plant Biol

Mmdominguez@ag.tamu.edu

X

Sabarinath Sundaram

Plant Biol

pksnath@neo.tamu.edu

X

Will Cody

Plant Biol

willcody@tamu.edu

X

Aravind Ravindran

Other

aravind.ravindran@ag.tamu.edu

X

Kranthi Mandadi

Plant Biol

kmandadi@bio.tamu.edu

X

Jesse Pyle

Molec Biosci

jessedpyle@tamu.edu

X

Bryan Gibbon

Plant Biol

bryan_gibbon@baylor.edu

X but no groups

Hector Miranda

Env Biol

mirandahc@tsu.edu

 

Vimlarani Chopra

Cell Biol

vimlarani.chopra@hccs.edu

 

Fatemah Mastouri

Bio & Critical Systems

fm79@cornell.edu

 

Arlene Pacheco

Mol Biosciences

arlenepacheco@tamu.edu

 

Ramadhika Damarwinasis

Plant Biol

rdamarwinasis@gmail.com

X

Shabfam Eslamfam

Computer Research

shabnam127@hotmail.com

X

Ken-Der Wang

Plant Biol

kenwang@tamu.edu

X

Mahnaz Kiani-Fahriz

Genetics & Nucleic Acids

mhkiani@tamu.edu

X

Nihkil Patil

Genetics & Nucleic Acids

nikaptil84@gmail.com

X

Kim Hixson

Plant Biol

kim.hixson@live.com

X

David Stelly

Genetics & Nucleic Acids

stelly@tamu.edu

X

Amanda Hulse

Genetics & Nucleic Acids

ahulse@tamu.edu

X

Christopher Lyons

Cell Biol

christopherwplyons@tamu.edu

X

Lauren Dobson

Genetics & Nucleic Acids

ldobson@cvm.tamu.edu

 

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!).  Space is limited; register at:

What Should I Bring?

This workshop is hands-on so please bring a Wi-fi enabled laptop. Lunch and breaks will be provided.

How Do I Get There?

Campus Directions and Parking:

http://transport.tamu.edu/

Attendees don't need a permit if they park in designated visitor parking garages that are all over the campus. The closest one to our Plant Pathology Department (Peterson building) where the workshop is going to be held is Central Campus Garage (CCG). Below is the link to the TAMU parking map. The parking fee in these garages goes hourly at about $2 per hour or $8 per 8 hours. Please see the attached parking app quote for CCG rates.

http://transportmap.tamu.edu/parkingmap/tsmap.htm?map=vis

Department guests usually stay at Vineyard Court Designer Suites Hotel (1500 George Bush Dr E, College Station, Texas, USA, 77840).

http://www.vineyardcourt.com/

There is also a Hilton (801 University Dr E, College Station, TX, 77840) and Hyatt Place (1100 University Drive East, College Station, Texas, USA, 77840) campus.