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High Performance & Scientific Computing

Bioinformatics Symposium (2022)



Following on our success of the 2021 -omics Symposium, the High Performance and Scientific Computing (HPSC) group hosted the 2022 “-omics Symposium” via Zoom on Friday, September 16, 2022. Building on the community discussions from last year, this year’s symposium goal is to once again bring together and engage the University of Tennessee research community of any discipline that use high-throughput computing, high performance computing, and/or data science for research in genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics, informatics, bioinformatics, biocomputing, and other related fields. The Symposium brought together this University of Tennessee research community with presentations from researchers in the fields and provide an opportunity for community discussions regarding resource and support needs and recommendations.

Last year, there were two listening sessions on hardware and software needs. Many of the requests regarding hardware and software were implemented and now HPSC would like to encourage discussions on community application workflows from data acquisitions (including from instruments), to data reduction, to results and describe those items that could improve time to solution, time to publication, and/or items that would lead to improved opportunities for funded research.

The Symposium was held Friday, September 16 via Zoom with multiple Zoom sessions which were recorded. All the Zoom recordings are provided below.

There was a “Symposium Google document” that participants could see and edit to put in comments, feedback, suggestions. The google doc link is here. There were 55 distinct attendees to the 2022 omics Symposium.

Agenda

All times Eastern Time Zone

Time EasternPresentation/Session TitlePresenter
10am

VH
Welcome
Welcome
Victor Hazlewood
Associate CIO & Director
OIT HPSC
10:15am

VH
Symposium Introduction
Welcome/Intro recording link
Dr. Brad Day
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation Initiatives
UTK Office of Research, Innovation & Economic Development
10:30am

PK
Connecting genotype and phenotype to breed a more sustainable beef cow
Presentation 1 Recording link
Dr. Troy Rowan
UTIA Departments of Animal Science and UTCVM Large Animal Clinical Science, and UTIA Genomics Center for the Advancement of Agriculture
11am

XM
Biorepository and Integrative Genomics (BIG) Initiative
Presentation 2 Recording link
Dr. Akram Mohammed
UTHSC Center for Biomedical Informatics
11:30am

VH
Programmed DNA elimination in multicellular organisms
Presentation 3 Recording link
Dr. Jianbin Wang
UTK Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology
noonLunch break
1pm

VH
Using Machine Learning to Understand the Ecology of Subsurface Microbes
Presentation 4 Recording link
Dr. Andrew Steen
Assistant Professor
Microbiology, UTK
1:30pm

PK
A Comparison of Dimensionality Reduction Methods for Large Biological Data
Presentation 5 Recording link
Ashley Babjac
Electrical Eng & Computer Science
2pm

XM
Community Discussion – HW & SW
Community Discussion Recording link (session 6)
Dr. Xianfeng Ma
HPC Computational Scientist
OIT HPSC
2:30pm

PK
Improved Rat Reference Genome and Updates on Rat Genome Resources
Presentation 7 Recording link
Dr. Hao Chen
Professor
Pharmacology, UTHSC
3pm

VH
Integrating the Illumina NovaSeq 6000 into the ISAAC Infrastructure
Presentation 8 Recording link
Veronica Brown, Center for Environmental Biotechnology
and Victor Hazlewood, OIT
3:45pmbreak
4pm

PK
Determination of reaction mechanisms for the pyrolysis of lignin model oligomers using density functional theory and HPC
Presentation 9 Recording link
Ross Houston
Graduate Research Assistant
Dept of Biosystems Engineering & Soil Sciences
4:30-5pm

VH
Community Discussion/Community Feedback/Wrap Up
What is needed to integrate more workflows into the infrastructure (integration, software, file sharing/storage)?
Victor Hazlewood
Associate CIO & Director
OIT HPSC