Dear Colleagues,<br><br>Please join us for a special Symposium
on Computing for Clinical and Basic Life Science Research. The
event is organized as a satellite of the Open Science Grid
All-Hands Meeting at Harvard Medical School. <br> <p> - Thursday
March 10th, 8:30-2pm <br> - Center for Life Sciences Boston (CLSB), 3
Blackfan Circle, Longwood, Boston) <br> </p><p>Please register
here: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://ahm.sbgrid.org" target="_blank">http://ahm.sbgrid.org</a>
using the discount code "nebiogrid" for the Thursday session. The
discounted registration cost ($45) includes breakfast and lunch.<b> The last day to receive this discounted registration is Tuesday, March 8th, so please register soon!</b></p><p>
Please feel free <span>to</span> forward the announcement <span>to</span> your colleagues.
You are also welcome <span>to</span> register for Mon-Wed sessions, and join us
for evening events. <br> </p><p>Attached you will find the final Program for the All-Hands Meeting. Below please also find the agenda as it now stands for your
Symposium.</p><p>Please feel free <span>to</span> contact us with any
questions about the event,<br> </p>Piotr Sliz, Ian Stokes-Rees,
Michelle Ottaviano <br><br><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">Thursday, March 10th</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><b>9:00AM-1:30PM </b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Computing for Clinical, Pharmaceutical and Basic Life Science Research </b><font size="2">CLSB Conference Room (floor?)</font></span></span></span></div>
<ul><li><span><font size="3">9:00-9:45AM Structural Biology Computing:</font></span></li><ul><li><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande,Lucida,Verdana,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="font-size: small;">Compute and data management strategies for grid deployment of high throughput protein structure studies</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> - Ian Stokes-Rees & Daniel O'Donovan (SBGrid Virtual Organization):</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: small;">The WeNMR project: building and operating a worldwide e-Infrastructure for NMR and structural biology - </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">Marco Verlato (</span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">WeNMR project, </span></font><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Sezione di Padova, Italy)</span></font></li>
<li><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Centrally managed scientific software support consortium: benefits and challenges - Ben Eisenbraun (SBGrid)</span></font></li></ul><li><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span>9:45-10:25AM US Cyberinfrastructure Technologies</span></font></li>
<ul><li><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Open Science Grid - Miron Livny (U. Wisconsin, OSG)</span></font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">TeraGrid - John Towns (NCSA)</span></font></li>
</ul><li>
<div> <font face="arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span>10:45-12:30PM Research Computing Highlights (10:45 - 12:30) 7 x ~ 15' talks</span></font></div></li><ul><li>
<div><span style="border-collapse: collapse;"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Cloud computing for comparative genomics and next-generation sequence analysis</span></font></span><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"> - Dennis Wall (Center for Biomedical Informatics) - 15'</span></font></div>
</li><li>
<div><span style="line-height: 21px;"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Data Management Challenges at The Broad - Matthew Trunnell<br></span></font></span></div></li><li>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">An Electronic Data Management and Survey Solution for the Research Community: REDCap - </font></span><span><font face="Arial" size="2">Stephen Berry, PhD and Christian Botte (</font></span><span><font face="Arial" size="2">BIDMC Academic & Research Computing) - 30'</font></span></div>
</li><li>
<div><span><font face="Arial" size="2">Managing and conducting biomedical science on the cloud - </font></span><span><font face="Arial" size="2">Prasad Patil (Laboratory for Personalized Medicine, HMS) - 15'<br></font></span></div>
</li><li>
<div>Challenges in mapping copy number variation from population-scale
genome sequence data, <span style="line-height: 21px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ryan Mills (BWH, Bioinformatics and Medical Diagnostics)<br>
</span></span></font></span></div></li></ul><li><font size="3">12:30-12:45PM Lunch Served</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span>12:45-1:35PM Boston Infrastructure Highlights </span></font></li><ul>
<li>
<font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Orchestra Cluster at Harvard Medical School - Mark Komarinski (RITG)</span></font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Harvard
FAS Research Computing: a Cluster and Much More - Amir Karger and Chris
Walker (Harvard's Sciences Division Research Computing) - 20</span></font><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">'</span></li></ul></ul><br>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Michelle Ottaviano<br><a href="mailto:ottaviano@hkl.hms.harvard.edu" target="_blank">ottaviano@hkl.hms.harvard.edu</a><br><br>