BCB Laboratory

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BCB Laboratory
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Mission

• Bioinformatics Laboratory is a forum for the
  exchange of experience, knowledge, and resources
  that acts as a catalyst for effective research.

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Basis

• Modeled after Statistics Laboratory.
• The recognition that many Bioinformaticians have
  consultancy roles in academics and industry.

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Objectives

• Help students and faculty with their
  bioinformatics needs.
• Get training in the process in working on real
  world problems.
• The pooling of collective wisdom and realize
  synergies in developing common solutions for
  related problems
• Have a good time.

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http//lab.bcb.iastate.edu/
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You found the website...

• Now what?
• Take a look at the BCB library
• Rate books
• Submit suggestions for new purchases
• You can also donate books you don't use
• Consult YABI
• Yet Another Bioinformatics Index
• Hierarchical list of BCB-related websites
• Submit your own favorite site(s)
• Goal is to become a specialized reference
• Think of the old Yahoo website

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FYI (faculty and PIs)

• Sandboxes
• You want a student to...
• Work on a new project / update an existing
  project
• Become familiar with a new programming language
• You DON'T want a student to...
• Accidentally mess up your existing infrastructure
• BCBLab has a solution for you...
• Get your student a virtual sandbox to play around
  in
• We offer...
• FTP-access for file upload
• Database access (currently MySQL)
• Webserver with PHP, Perl, BioPerl, ASP, ASP.NET
• Support
• e.g. how can I generate images on the fly on my
  website?)

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FYI (students)

• Sandboxes
• You want to...
• Learn how to do cool stuff on the web
• You DON'T want to...
• Accidentally mess up your lab's existing
  infrastructure
• Call for participation
• We have loads of ideas, but not enough people
• If you want to spend a few hours a week focusing
  on something different, join us! Why?
• Become versatile in areas beyond your primary
  research topic. Gain experience doing
  consultancy, develop communication skills. Looks
  great on resume commitment, innovation and
  creativity skills

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Call for projects

• We have a lot of ideas ourselves, but limited
  resources
• We want you to tell us what to do
• Mainly targeted toward wet-lab researchers with
  no bioinformatics competence
• Submit a project request
• http//lab.bcb.iastate.edu/interaction/request.php

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Organizational Meeting

• Tuesday, Sept. 26th 515pm
• 1102 Molecular Biology Building
• Tremendous amounts of Pizza.

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Who's who
Matthew Moscou
Yves Sucaet
Xiao Yang
Misha Rajaram
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People and Organizations

• Trish Stauble
• Interdepartmental BCB Program Coordinator
• Srinivas Aluru
• Interdepartmental BCB Chair
• Robert Jernigan
• Lawrence H. Baker Center for
• Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics
• Funding has been provided from the ISU BCB
  program.