Bioinformatics (cont.)
Bioinformatics is a multidisciplinary field that develops methods for turning the so-called biological big data into knowledge. Although most problems in biology are not as embarrassingly parallelizable as the physics codes that HPC systems are usually designed for, this has been starting to change in recent years. Metagenomics is an emerging field in bioinformatics that investigates microbes inhabiting oceans, soils, the human body, etc. with sequencing technologies. In this course, we will first tune your HPC knowledge/skills towards bioinformatics computing and then a typical metagenomics pipeline will be explored to introduce common tools used in bioinformatic analysis and to show how they can be run in an HPC environment. 

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The 2022 Compute Ontario Summer School for Advanced Research Computing will begin on May 30th, 2022 and will run until August 5th, 2022, offering virtual (online) workshops on a variety of topics, including advanced research computing basics, high performance computing tools, programming languages, machine learning, visualization, programming GPUs, and bioinformatics. The Summer School workshops are at the beginner-to-intermediate levels of difficulty.The School is jointly organized and delivered by SHARCNET, SciNet, and CAC. The school is free, Compute Canada / Alliance accounts are not required. Attendance is limited, please register early.