Bioinformatics is a multidisciplinary field that develops methods for turning the so-called biological big data into knowledge. Although most problems in biology are not as embarrassingly parallelizable as the physics codes that HPC systems are usually designed for, this has been starting to change in recent years. Metagenomics is an emerging field in bioinformatics that investigates microbes inhabiting oceans, soils, human body, etc. with sequencing technologies.
In this two-day hands-on session, a typical metagenomics pipeline will be explored to introduce common tools used in bioinformatics analysis and how they can be utilized in an HPC environment.
Instructors:
- DAY ONE: Jose Sergio Hleap, SHARCNET, University of Guelph
- DAY TWO: Armin Sobhani, SHARCNET, Ontario Tech University
Prerequisites: Basic Unix competence and basic knowledge of bioinformatics applications are required
- Teacher: Jose Sergio Hleap
- Teacher: Armin Sobhani