NCGAS has been super busy this semester, which has been reflected in our limited blog posts!

What have we been doing that’s been keeping us so busy? In part, SCHOOL! Both learning and teaching! Carrie and Bhavya are working on Ph.D.s, Sheri started taking Data Science courses, and Tom became an adjunct professor. We also taught four workshops in Fall semester – one of which was for 343 people (our first MOOC)!

So while we may not have been as active on our blog in the last few months, we have really enjoyed working with a lot of you in courses and collaborations ^_^.

Now that we’ve learned a ton of new things, we’re turning them into new resources for the community – new pipelines, new workshops, new grants, new tools… and a brand new supercomputer coming online in 2020 as well! Stay tuned!

In the mean time, here’s a preview of what’s coming up next semester:

Upcoming NCGAS workshop in 2020

Workshop name	Tentative Location	Tentative dates	Status
HPC for Biologists	IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN Indiana University, Bloomington, IN	Jan 2020	Complete
R for Biologists	Will now be taught online!	March 31, April 7, 14 2020	Open
Metagenomic Analysis	Postponed TBA	April/May 2020	Postponed
Introduction to RADseq	Norfolk, VA at the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists	July 19, 2020	Confirmed
Machine Learning for Ecologists	Salt Lake City, UT at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting	Aug 2, 2020	Confirmed
Reusing Available Data from Sequence Read Archive	Salt Lake City, UT at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting	Aug 2, 2020	Confirmed
HPC for Biologists	IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN Indiana University, Bloomington, IN	September 2020	TBD
de novo Transcriptome Assembly	Indiana University, Bloomington, IN	October 2020	TBD
R/Python for Biologists	Online	November 2020	TBD

(posted on our workshops page!)

We’ll keep you posted as dates solidify and other projects become public ^_^.  Until then, have a happy holiday and we’ll see you next year and next semester!