Australasian Microarray & Associated Technologies Association, AMATA

Exploit your Data: Galaxy and the GMOD Tool Suite

Place: Ian Wark Theatre
Time: Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 2 pm (ca. 2 hours)
Registration: Not required

Summary:
Integrating, analysing, visualising and sharing large amounts of biological data is often a necessary part of biological research.  This workshop will cover several tools to help biomedical researchers exploit the ever increasing amounts of data.  Galaxy (http://usegalaxy.org) is a popular Web-based platform for performing accessible, reproducible, and transparent genomics research. Galaxy provides a collaborative environment for performing complex analyses with automatic and unobtrusive provenance tracking; these features allow transparent sharing of both the precise computational details underlying an analysis and also the intent and context.  The talk will introduce Galaxy and include a detailed demonstration of how to use it.  This talk will also include an overview of GMOD (http://gmod.org/), of which Galaxy is a part.  GMOD is a set of interoperable open source software components for performing common tasks with biological data.  GMOD includes a number of widely used components for genome browsing (GBrowse, JBrowse), genome annotation (MAKER, Apollo), comparative genomics visualization (CMap, GBrowse_syn), and data management and integration (Chado, BioMart, InterMine).

CLC genomics workbench

Place: Hedley Bull Theatre 2, Hedley Bull Centre, Building 130, corner of Garran Road and Liversidge Streets
Time: Tuesday, 11 October, 2 pm (ca. 2-3 hours)
Registration: not required

Summary:
CLC bio is the world's leading bioinformatics solution provider. Next-Generation Sequencing is a major focus area and CLC bio delivers the first and only comprehensive cross-platform analysis solution, which can analyze and visualize genomic, transcriptomic, and epigenomic data from all major platforms, like Illumina’s GA and HiSeq, SOLiD and Ion Torrent by Life Technologies, 454 by Roche, and PacBio RS by Pacific bioscience.

We have overcome the challenge to analyze High-Throughput Sequencing data faster than it is produced by implementing a SIMD-accelerated assembly algorithm in our Next Generation Sequencing solution, CLC Genomics Workbench - a cross-platform desktop application with a graphical user-interface. CLC Genomics Workbench, for analyzing and visualizing Next Generation Sequencing data, incorporates cutting-edge technology and algorithms, while also supporting and integrating with the rest of your typical NGS workflow.