Course: 1st Workshop on bioKepler Tools and Its Applications

Project Information

Discipline
Computer Science (401) 
Subdiscipline
26.01 Biology, General 
Orientation
Research 
Abstract

In this workshop bioinformaticians and computational biologists will meet with the bioKepler team to clarify specific technical requirements for bioKepler tool and workflow development. The two focus areas for the workshop are (i) evaluation of bioinformatics and computational tools for bioActor development; and (ii) generation of bioinformatics workflows based on conceptual workflows presented by workshop attendees. As a part of this workshop, the organizers will conduct a formal survey of use cases and translate them into functional bioKepler requirements.  
 
We request use of FutureGrid to run a instances of the bioKepler VM, originally developed on EC2.  

Intellectual Merit

bioKepler is a three year long project that builds scientific workflow components to execute a set of bioinformatics tools using distributed execution patterns. Once customized, these components are executed on multiple distributed platforms including various Cloud and Grid computing platforms. In addition, we deliver virtual machines including a Kepler engine and all bioinformatics tools and applications we are building components for in bioKepler.

Broader Impacts

Technologies like scientific workflows and data-intensive computing promise new capabilities to enable rapid analysis of these next-generation sequence data. These technologies, when used together in an integrative architecture, have great promise to serve many projects with similar needs on the emerging distributed data-intensive computing resources.

Project Contact

Project Lead
Ilkay Altintas (altintas) 
Project Manager
Jianwu Wang (jianwu) 
Project Members
Jianwu Wang, Shweta Purawat, Jianwu Wang, Wanghu Chen, Daniel Crawl  

Resource Requirements

Hardware System
  • india (IBM iDataPlex at IU)
 
Use of FutureGrid

For workshop on September 5-6, 2012

Scale of Use

Start up 28 instances of biokepler VM for use during workshop.

Project Timeline

Submitted
09/11/2012 - 23:28 
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