BCBLab introduction

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BCBLab introduction

• 8 March 2007
• Matthew Moscou

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Summer 2006

• Matthew Moscou
• Misha Rajaram
• Yves Sucaet
• Xiao Yang

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BCBLab

• organized and operated by graduate students
• a forum for the exchange of experience,
  knowledge, and resources that acts as a catalyst
  for effective research
• provide bioinformatics expertise to departments
  and researchers outside of the BCB program

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Modus operandi

• We provide undergraduate research opportunities.
• We match non-BCB PIs with on-campus specialists
• Bi-weekly internal meetings, small projects,
  agility, platform solutions
• Hardware purchased with BCB program funds
• 1 server, 2 workstations, 81-node cluster

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Projects

• Phylogenetic tree inference in Xanthomonas
  species
• TAL effector genes
• Metabolomic data processing
• Excel macro automation
• Medical entomology / West Nile data integration
• 35 years of data

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Consulting

• Chloroplast Biogenesis
• Massive microarray
  experiment 300 ATH1 GeneChips
• Construction of a suppressor
  interaction network

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Cluster

• BCB acquired 10 old machines
• total memory capacity of 4 GB RAM and 320 GB HD

Zeus
Apollo
Olympos
Hera
Hermes
Artemis
Athena
Ares
Hades
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Future plans

• Build our numbers
• Engage more BCB graduate students
• Engage undergraduate students
• Engage ISU biological departments
• Collaboration with New Mexico State University
• Build a reputation as an ISU entity
• Presentation of completed projects at NMBIS

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John
Matthew
Bob
Wengang
Fadi
YOU?
Trish
Xiao
Misha
Yves

• http//lab.bcb.iastate.edu