[Bioclusters] Cluster seminars next week

[Matthew MacInnis]

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All:

Pardon the plug, but I thought this would be of genuine interest to 
some of you.

I wanted to toss an invitation to any of you in the Illinois and 
Wisconsin areas to attend a series of seminars on Xserve clusters in 
bioinformatics. Dr. David Adelson, Assoc. Professor of Genomics at 
Texas A&M University, will speak about his success in comparative 
genomics. (Abstract at the bottom of this e-mail.)

Although the primary audience is the higher education research 
community, they are open to everyone. The seminars are free, and food 
will be served.

8:30a - 11:30a, both days:
November 11 in Chicago, IL at Apple's Chicago Market Center
November 12 in Madison, WI at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

To register, and for specific instructions on how to get to the 
seminar, go to:

http://seminars.apple.com/html/bylocationusa.html

Choose either Illinois or Wisconsin and then either "Madison" or 
"Chicago (Apple)."

Hope to see you there!


ABSTRACT:
Some applications of cluster computing to comparative genomics.
David L. Adelson

My lab is interested in the identification of Quantitative Trait Loci 
for beef cattle production traits.  This work relies heavily on the use 
of comparative genomics to identify candidate genes on the basis of 
conserved synteny between mammals.  Specifically, we use comparisons of 
genome sequence information from human, mouse and rat to bovine genetic 
markers, including bovine ESTs and BAC clone end sequences to elucidate 
the gene content between STS markers available for the bovine genome.

Given the large volume of bovine EST and BAC end sequence data 
currently available, our requirements for BLAST searches significantly 
exceed the capacity of public BLAST servers.  As a result of this 
situation, Texas A&M University elected to set up a bioinformatics 
server aimed at providing BLAST and other application support to 
faculty, students and staff of varying levels of expertise and 
requiring anywhere from a single to thousands of BLAST searches 
performed in a timely fashion.

We chose Apple/BioTeam as providers for our server/portal as they were 
able to provide us with reliability, performance, software 
applications, user interface and ease of administration at an 
affordable price.  As a result of implementing this solution, we have 
significantly improved our turn around time for BLAST searches and made 
numerous other extremely useful and powerful software applications 
available to our users.  Without this portal, users would be required 
to obtain a UNIX/LINUX machine and subsequently download, compile and 
configure UNIX based applications.

Other users include poultry researchers who need access to the raw 
chicken genome shotgun data and phage researchers who routinely 
sequence whole phage genomes and then need to perform whole genome 
alignments.
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All:


Pardon the plug, but I thought this would be of genuine interest to
some of you.


I wanted to toss an invitation to any of you in the Illinois and
Wisconsin areas to attend a series of seminars on Xserve clusters in
bioinformatics. <bold>Dr. David Adelson</bold>, Assoc. Professor of
Genomics at Texas A&M University, will speak about his success in
comparative genomics. (Abstract at the bottom of this e-mail.)


Although the primary audience is the higher education research
community, they are open to everyone. The seminars are free, and food
will be served.


8:30a - 11:30a, both days:

November 11 in <bold>Chicago</bold>, IL at Apple's Chicago Market
Center

November 12 in <bold>Madison</bold>, WI at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison


To register, and for specific instructions on how to get to the
seminar, go to:


http://seminars.apple.com/html/bylocationusa.html


Choose either Illinois or Wisconsin and then either "Madison" or
"Chicago (Apple)."


Hope to see you there!



ABSTRACT:

<bold>Some applications of cluster computing to comparative genomics.

</bold>David L. Adelson


My lab is interested in the identification of Quantitative Trait Loci
for beef cattle production traits.  This work relies heavily on the
use of comparative genomics to identify candidate genes on the basis
of conserved synteny between mammals.  Specifically, we use
comparisons of genome sequence information from human, mouse and rat
to bovine genetic markers, including bovine ESTs and BAC clone end
sequences to elucidate the gene content between STS markers available
for the bovine genome. 


Given the large volume of bovine EST and BAC end sequence data
currently available, our requirements for BLAST searches significantly
exceed the capacity of public BLAST servers.  As a result of this
situation, Texas A&M University elected to set up a bioinformatics
server aimed at providing BLAST and other application support to
faculty, students and staff of varying levels of expertise and
requiring anywhere from a single to thousands of BLAST searches
performed in a timely fashion.  


We chose Apple/BioTeam as providers for our server/portal as they were
able to provide us with reliability, performance, software
applications, user interface and ease of administration at an
affordable price.  As a result of implementing this solution, we have
significantly improved our turn around time for BLAST searches and
made numerous other extremely useful and powerful software
applications available to our users.  Without this portal, users would
be required to obtain a UNIX/LINUX machine and subsequently download,
compile and configure UNIX based applications.  


Other users include poultry researchers who need access to the raw
chicken genome shotgun data and phage researchers who routinely
sequence whole phage genomes and then need to perform whole genome
alignments.
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