1. The iPlant Collaborative Community Cyberinfrastructure for Life Science Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Sciences Education April, 2014 – Omaha, Nebraska Jason Williams Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory / iPlant Collaborative

2. Cyberinfrastructure is a key enabler for bioinformatics education

3. What is Cyberinfrastructure? iPlant Data Store 100 GB allocation per user – up to ~10TB iPlant Data Store 100 GB allocation per user – up to ~10TB Discovery Environment 100’s Bioinformatics Apps in WYSIWYG interface Discovery Environment 100’s Bioinformatics Apps in WYSIWYG interface Atmosphere One-click access to configurable virtual machines Atmosphere One-click access to configurable virtual machines DNA Subway Classroom-friendly workflows for Annotation, DNA Barcoding, RNA-Seq DNA Subway Classroom-friendly workflows for Annotation, DNA Barcoding, RNA-Seq Training and Support Online and onsite training, user forums, support Training and Support Online and onsite training, user forums, support HPC Resources UA Condor Cluster + XSEDE resources at TACC HPC Resources UA Condor Cluster + XSEDE resources at TACC Science APIs Low-level system APIs + Public Science APIs Science APIs Low-level system APIs + Public Science APIs

4. Faculty identified guiding requirements that shape the development of iPlant’s educational platforms: Mix lecture and lab – have a wet bench “hook” Student-scientist partnerships – someone has to care about the data Co-investigation – projects should potentially lead to publications Scale – platforms should support projects multiple classrooms can join. Guiding Principles

5. DNA Subway Educational workflows for Genomes, DNA Barcoding, RNA-Seq Commonly used bioinformatics tools in streamlined workflows Teach important concepts in biology and bioinformatics Inquiry-based experiments for novel discovery and publication of data

6. Sequencing Towards an egalitarian biology NA purification

7. Towards an egalitarian bioinformatics

8. CI enables bioinformatics education www.urbanbarcodeproject.org