Statewide IT Conference, Bloomington IN (October 7th, 2014)

The National Center for Genome Analysis Support, IU and You!

Carrie Ganote (Bioinformatics Analyst)William K. Barnett, Ph.D. (Director)

National Center for Genome Analysis Support

Overview

Who is NCGAS?

What do they do?

How does this help me?

Started as a 3-year NSF-funded project to support genomics.

A collaborative project between our center here at IU, the Pervasive Technology

Institute and our partners:

Who we are

• 2.45 FTE Direct Staff

1. Yours Truly – 75% – Bioinformatics Analyst

2. Le-Shin Wu - PhD Computer Scientist

3. Tom Doak – 50% – PhD Genomicist and Biology Liason

4. Bill Barnett – 20% – Director and man with the plan

• Direct access to the rest of our partner supercomputing centers

What we do

• Provide Cyberinfrastructure to get things

done

• Software support and gateways to lower

barriers

• Consulting for genomics projects

QuarryIBM

BladeCenter HS21 - General

purpose Linux computing

environment

Big Red 2 Cray XE6/XK7

PetaFLOPS Supercomputer

owned by IU

MasonHP DL580 - Large memory machine for genomicsXSEDE Tier 2 resource

Meet the family

Meet the family

• Short-term project storage on the Data Capacitor 2 High Performance Storage System

• Storage of up to 50 terabytes of research data on IU's Scientific Data Archive tape storage system.

• Services for curation and long-term storage of data sets and final results from genome research in the IUScholarWorks

• Internet 2 backbone for fast data transfer

Integrated collection of high-end compute resources for US researchers

Distributed network of opportunistically available compute

resources for US researchers

Meet the family

Making IT easier for Biologists

• Web interface to NCGAS resources

• Supports many bioinformatics tools

• Available for both research and instruction.

Common

Rare

Computational Skills

LOW

HIGH

NCGAS Galaxy Model

Quarry Gateway Hosting Galaxy.iu.edu

The host for each tool is configured individually

Quarry Mason

Data Capacitor 2Archive

NCGAS establishes tools, hardens them, and moves them into production.

Each project can get 50 TB of archive space for raw data and finished products.

Individual projects can get duplicate VMs.

Policies guarantee that untouched data is removed with time.

Consulting Services

linux $ Help!

home -- bash

Bioinformatics should be available to anyone, regardless of their

background in informatics or computer related fields. We help

with the following:

Analysis and interpretation of results

Learning to use UNIX

Tools of the trade

Best practices

Experimental design

Software installationTroubleshooting

Letters of commitment for grant proposals

Who can get in on this?

• NSF Funded Projects and startups– If you have an NSF-Funded genomics project, you are entitled

to use our services for free!– If you have a project in mind that is eligible, we may be able to

accommodate your project so that you can make your proposal.

• Members of the IU Community– As a member of IU, you are entitled to use our services for free!– IU pays for our electricity, heating and air conditioning in the

Cyberinfrastructure Building located on 10th and the Bypass, Bloomington IN

Who can get in on this?

The “Catch”

• We ask that you acknowledge our grant in any published

work that uses our resources.

• Collaborations and authorship are requested for intellectual

contributions.

How do I sign up?

Email contact is the best way to get in touch with us.We are happy to discuss your project and

needs:

If you are ready to get your project off the ground, request an allocation at:

help@ncgas.org

http://ncgas.org/request.php

Legal Stuff• This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under

Grants No. ABI-1062432• This work was supported in part by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. and the Indiana University

Pervasive Technology Institute• Any opinions presented here are those of the presenter(s) and do not necessarily

represent the opinions of the National Science Foundation or any other funding agencies

• Except where otherwise noted, contents of this presentation are copyright 2014 by the Trustees of Indiana University.

• This document is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). This license includes the following terms: You are free to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work and to remix – to adapt the work under the following conditions: attribution – you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.

FinQuestions?

Bill Barnett

barnettw@iu.edu

Tom Doak

tdoak@iu.edu

Le-Shin Wu

lewu@iu.edu

Carrie Ganote

cganote@iu.edu