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:
| 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 | Complete |
| Metagenomic Analysis | Postponed TBA | April/May 2020 | Postponed |
| Introduction to RADseq | Norfolk, VA at the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists | July 19, 2020 | Canceled |
| Machine Learning for Ecologists | Salt Lake City, UT at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting | Aug 2, 2020 | Canceled |
| Reusing Available Data from Sequence Read Archive | Salt Lake City, UT at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting | Aug 2, 2020 | Canceled |
| HPC for Biologists | IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN Indiana University, Bloomington, IN |
September 2020 | Canceled |
| NCBI Tools in the Cloud | Online | November 2020 | Complete |
| R/Python for Biologists | Online | October 2020 | Complete |
(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!