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 Eastern | Presentation/Session Title | Presenter |
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 |
noon | Lunch 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 |
3:45pm | break | |
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 |