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Upcoming training sessions

Title: Introduction to HPC
Date & time: ​Friday, 22 January 2021, 10:00am–1:00pm (AEST).  FIRST SESSION FOR 2021
Short description: This session will be for new users of Tinaroo, Awoonga and FlashLite.
Presenter: RCC's Dr David Green.
Training material: Provided online.
Location: Via Zoom video conferencing.
The Intro to HPC Training will take place via Zoom videoconferencing until further notice.
Register: Via email to rcc-support@uq.edu.au


Title: Wiener HPC Training
Date & time: ​To be advised

Short description: This 2 hour information session will be for new users of the Wiener HPC.

It is advisable to have attended the Intro to HPC training at some time prior to attending this training.
You should have applied for, and have had approved and set up, access to Wiener before attending.
Visit rcc.uq.edu.au/wiener and follow the link to how to apply for access to Wiener
.

Presenters: QBI's Irek Porebski and RCC's Jake Carroll.
Training material: Provided online.
Location: RCC Meeting Room, Room 505, Level 5, Axon Building, Building 47, St Lucia Campus, UQ
The Wiener HPC Training will take place via Zoom videoconferencing until further notice.
Register: Via email to rcc-support@uq.edu.au


Title: Introduction to Network Visualisation and Cytoscape
Date & time: ​Tuesday, 1 October 2019, 9am - 1pm.

Short description: In this hands-on workshop, an introduction will be given to how networks or graphs are defined and methods to visualise them. The primary tool will be Cytoscape, a free, powerful multi-platform application for visualisation and analysis of networks.
Presenters: RCC's Dr Nick Hamilton and Ollie Cairncross.
Training material: Provided online.
Location: RCC Meeting Room, Room 505, Level 5, Axon Building, Building 47, St Lucia Campus, UQ
Register: Register by emailing either Nick or Ollie.

 



Specialty training sessions for research groups can be organised by emailing the RCC Support Desk: rcc-support@uq.edu.au


Regular training sessions

Title: Introduction to High Performance Computing
Dates & time: Monthly, subject to demand. Date and time to be confirmed each month- however generally the last Friday morning of each month unless public holidays intervene (watch this space).                
Short description: The aim of this short course is to build core competencies in HPC such as command line proficiency, getting data on and off HPC, using software packages, submitting batch jobs and data archiving. The course is very hands-on with brief labs to demonstrate the principles and run examples. All new users of the RCC HPC facilities are encouraged to attend. One-on-one training is also available on request.
Presenter: RCC's David Green, Edan Scriven or Michael Mallon.
Training material: Currently being updated.
Location: Room R505A, level 5, Axon Building, Building 47, St Lucia Campus, UQ, QLD 4067
Contact for further information: Fran Moore, RCC, rcc-admin@uq.edu.au
Register: Via email to rcc-support@uq.edu.au
 

Title: Dr Nick's Image Clinic
Dates & time: 10am-12am most Mondays
Short description: A weekly image clinic for researchers at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience to provide help in quantification, visualisation and modelling of bio-imaging. 
Location: Dr Nick's Office, Room 3.053, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, St Lucia Campus, UQ, QLD 4067
Training material: http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/nick-hamilton
Contact: Dr Nick Hamilton, RCC/IMB, n.hamilton@uq.edu.au


On-demand training

Title: Introduction to Galaxy
Dates & time: By arrangement with Dr Igor Makunin
Short description: We cover different topics of nextGen sequencing data analysis using Galaxy platform, such as RNA-Seq, Variant identification / resequencing, ChIP-Seq, microbial genome assembly, or general data manipulation, including creation and use of workflows in Galaxy. Workflows can be developed on request from users.
Presenter: Dr Igor Makunin, RCC UQ                                                
Contact: Dr Igor Makunin, RCC, i.makunin@uq.edu.au       


Previous training session titles

Title: Introduction to HPC

Title: Wiener HPC Training

Title: Introduction to Network Visualisation and Cytoscape

Title: Creating a virtual machine on the Australian Research Cloud

Title: Engineering Software Tools Inspire & Evolve workshop

Title: Galaxy workshop

Title: Tinaroo HPC Applications Training

Title: Altair HyperWorks training

Title: Software Carpentry Bootcamp

Title: Statistics for Frightened Bio-Researchers

Title: FlashLite Information Session

Title: Kepler Scientific Workflow System workshop

Title: The Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology

Title: NCI Training Sessions — Raijin

Title: ScaleMP vSMP Training Module 1.1

Title: RNA-Seq in Galaxy

Title: Genomics Virtual Lab: analyse your data with a mouse click

Title: Differential gene expression analysis in Galaxy

Title: Genomics Virtual Lab: analyse your data with a mouse click
 

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