Bioinformatics on Big Data: Computing on the Human Genome Workshop in Toronto

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Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops has developed a 2-day course providing an introduction to security and privacy issues related to working on human genome data and the processes necessary to access such data. After reviewing cloud computing infrastructure, the workshop will also provide a hands-on introduction to launching and configuring your own virtual machine (VM), accessing cloud-based data sets, and how to scale up the number of VMs to meet your analysis needs. Customizing VMs with your own tools and cloud-computing best practices will also be discussed.

Participants will gain practical experience and skills to be able to:

• Launch their own virtual machine (VM)
• Configure a VM with prepackaged tools
• Pull in data sets from Cloud repositories
• Follow best practices in data and workflow management
• Customize a VM with their own tools
• Scale up their VM to meet their analysis needs

The workshop will be held in Toronto, Ontario on July 14 - July 15, 2016. For more information and to apply, please visit the workshop website.