Join us on Wednesday, August 11th at 1 pm EDT for an informal, virtual event where you will learn about data access and exploration on BioData Catalyst from team members of PIC-SURE and Gen3. Reps from these teams will be talking about data discovery and cohort creation. We will also discuss data access procedures for dbGap data sets that have been ingested into the BioData Catalyst ecosystem. After a demo and presentation from these teams, time will be made available for discussion…
Find out more »TRiRODS is a local meetup for iRODS users and developers in the RDU area. TRiRODS works to build a strong sense of community, to offer a space for collaboration and sharing of individual implementations of iRODS, and to further the work on a hardened version of the code. Join us at our next meetup, virtually. If you are interested in sharing your work at one of our quarterly meetings, please email info@irods.org. Ingest Refactor (Python) By: Gabrielle Maxwell, iRODS Consortium Intern…
Find out more »Join us on Wednesday, August 25th at 1 pm EDT for an informal, virtual event where you will learn about the analysis workspaces on BioData Catalyst from team members of Seven Bridges and Terra. Reps from these teams will be providing an introduction to and a tour of their workspaces. We will also discuss how you can request Pilot Credits to get started on these platforms. After a demo and presentation from these teams, time will be made available for discussion and…
Find out more »Join us on Wednesday, September 15th from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT for an informal, virtual event where you will learn about Cloud Costs on BioData Catalyst from team members of Seven Bridges, Terra, and the BioData Catalyst Coordinating Center. Reps from these teams will be talking about a variety of topics related to cloud costs, including: Cloud computing Requesting pilot funding Best practices for benchmarking your pilot analyses, including budgeting for scale Writing BioData Catalyst into your grant proposal What…
Find out more »Since its debut in 2002, the annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo has established itself as a premier event showcasing the innovative IT and informatics applications and enabling technologies that are driving the future of precision medicine. The event highlights new frontiers in drug discovery & development, biomedical research, and clinical and healthcare initiatives made possible by cutting-edge technologies. Translating FAIR and Data Readiness Principles to Enable AI for Clinical Applications Kimberly Robasky, PhD, Head, Translational Science, Renaissance Computing Institute…
Find out more »Network systems have long relied on data — traffic measurements, system configurations, demand predictions, etc. — for planning, engineering, operations, and trouble-shooting purposes. In the era of artificial intelligence (AI), data will be even more directly driving the network systems where AI methods are employed. A plethora of recent programs at NSF and across federal agencies — e.g., National Research AI Institutes and a rich slate of other programs — will be ushering in exciting innovative ideas to apply AI…
Find out more »Join the UNC Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) for Pharmacogenomics and Decision Support in the EHR, a free virtual mini-symposium from 1:00-3:00pm on Wednesday October 27. Presenters will explore mechanisms for predicting how a patient’s genome will influence their response to medications, implementing pharmacogenomics in the clinic, and development of EHR decision support. Presentations: The ongoing quest for perfection – or at least precision – of tacrolimus dosing in bone marrow transplant Daniel Crona, PharmD, PhD — Associate…
Find out more »The NCDS and NC State's Data Science Academy are teaming up to offer students an opportunity to hear from representatives of top businesses who need data science talent. Industry panelists will provide insight into the current state of the big data/data analytics field. This year's panelists include: Omar Florez, Twitter Cortex Kim Kotlar, Cybersecurity Policy Consultant Melissa Ngamini, ADP Evan Shieh, Amazon Adam Suarez, FlightAware The panel is free, but registration is required. This will be a virtual event; please…
Find out more »Leveraging the strengths of Carolina’s schools of public health and medicine, its affiliated research centers and institutes, and its prowess in big data management, the Heterogeneity in Obesity Creativity Hub: Transdisciplinary Approaches for Precision Research and Treatment, a large, collaborative project with 27 faculty from 16 departments, six schools and five centers and institutes. The project focuses on understanding why two people who consume the same diets and exercise equally can have very different susceptibility to weight gain, with the…
Find out more »Each year, the Supercomputing conference provides the leading technical program for professionals and students in the HPC community, as measured by impact, at the highest academic and professional standards. The program is designed to share best practices in areas such as: algorithms; applications; architectures and networks; clouds and distributed computing; data analytics, visualization, and storage; machine learning and HPC; performance; programming systems; system software; and state of the practice in large-scale deployment and integration. Visit the RENCI in-person booth (#2619) at SC21…
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