Agenda SC'09 Cloud Computing for Systems and Computational Biology



  Time        

Activity

Speaker

9:00 - 10:15 a.m.


 

Introduction - Data Explosion and Clouds
(Chair: Bob Cottingham)


  1. Folker Meyer, Welcome and Workshop Charge (10 minutes)
  2. Dawn Field, Building the M5 Platform: A Next-Generation MetaInfrastructure for the Metagenomics Community
  3. Eugene Kolker, M5 and Multi OMICS

 

10:15 - 10:30 a.m.

 

Coffee Break

Provided
10:30 - 12:00 p.m.

 Application Talks
(Chair: Folker Meyer, 20 minutes each)

  1. David Haussler, Genomes in the Clouds: The UCSC Genomics Browsers and Distributed Bio-Computation
  2. Simon Twigger, ViPDAC, A Stand-Alone Proteomics Analysis Suite in the Cloud
  3. Ananth Kalyanaraman, Using Clouds for Data-Intensive Computations in Proteomics
  4. Michael Schatz, Commodity Computing in Genomics Research

 

12:00 - 12:30 p.m.

 

Lunch Break Lunch Provided

 

12:30 - 2:00 p.m.

 

 

Round Table / Panel Discussion 
(Chair: Susan Gregurick) 

  1. Susan Gregurick, Bob Cottingham, Welcome and Knowledgebase (KBase) Introduction (10 minutes)
  2. Kathy Yelick, Pete Beckman, The Magellan Clouds (10 minutes)
  3. Future Directions for Cloud Computing in Systems and Computational Biology
    • Owen White (University of Maryland)
    • Pete Beckman (Argonne National Laboratory)
    • Kathy Yelick (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
    • Dawn Field (Oxford Centre for Ecology and Hydrology)
    • David Haussler (University of California, Santa Cruz) 
    • Jeff Grethe (University of California, San Diego)
    • Folker Meyer (Argonne National Laboratory)
    • Victor Markowitz (Joint Genomics Institute)
    • Eugene Kolker (Seattle Children's Hospital)
    • Bob Cottingham (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Technical Talks
(Chair: Owen White, 15 minutes each) 
  1. Sam Angiuoli, CloVR: A Virtual Appliance for Automated Analysis of Sequence Data
  2. Narayan DesaiAWE: A Novel Approach to Cloud-Scale Bioinformatics
  3. Lavanya Ramakrishnan, A Performance Comparision of Massively Parallel Sequence Matching Computations on Cloud Computing Platforms and HPC Clusters Using Hadoop
  4. Kate Keahey, Cloud Computing for Science

 

3:00 - 3:30 p.m.

 

Coffee Break Provided
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.Technical Talks
(Chair: Victor Markowitz , 15 minutes each)
  1. Bob Grossman, Cloud-Based Services For Large Scale Analysis of Sequence and Expression Data: Lessons From Cistrack
  2. Judy Qiu, Using MapReduce Technologies in Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics
  3. Thomas Brettin, Architectures for the Next Generation of Systems Biology Informatics
  4. Owen White, An Approach to Generate Consensus Annotation

 

4:30 - 5:30 p.m.

 

Final Discussion / Round Up / Summary
  1. Deepak Singh, The Role of Cloud Computing in Big Biology

 

5:30 p.m.

 

Adjourn  

Wiki for Drafting Site for Designing a DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (http://sites.google.com/site/doekbase/)