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2022 ASM NGS Pre-conference workshop

Microbial Pathogen and SARS-CoV-2 Resources in the Cloud

This is the pre-conference workshop wiki where we'll take you through the projects used for the conference.

Workshop organization

  • Setup
  • Part 1: SRA and NCBI Virus
  • Part 2: NCBI Pathogen Detection
    • Background
    • Exercises
      • Project 1: Use BigQuery to search MicroBIGG-E and Isolates data
      • Project 2: Build a phylogeny of reference blaKPC alleles
      • Project 3: Look for evidence of positively selected sites in blaKPC genes

Workshop goals

  • Demonstrate use of BigQuery in the Google Cloud Console and commandline bq
  • Show how BigQuery can be used to do analysis of microbigge, isolates, and isolate_exceptions tables and how they relate to the web interface
  • Demonstrate downloading sequences and phylogenetic analysis from the Reference Gene Catalog and visualization using iTOL
  • Demonstrate using gsutil to download MicroBIGG-E contig sequences from cloud storage buckets
  • Demonstrate the use of seqkit to perform some common operations on FASTA files
  • Show how to slice out coding sequences from contig sequences and perform simple selection analysis on genes in MicroBIGG-E

Don't have a cloud account?

NIH Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability (STRIDES) Initiative has launched a new NIH Cloud Lab program that lets you experiment with using cloud for your research. You can request a GCP or AWS account, and will receive $500 and three months, in addition to access to biomedical tutorials that walk you through common cloud-based research use cases. This is available to intramural researchers currently but expect it to be ready for extramural researchers in the coming months. Learn more via this link- https://cloud.nih.gov/resources/cloudlab/

Has this been useful?

Please let us know at suggest@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov if this has been useful and if you're using any of these resources in your work and especially if you use these resources in your publications.

Post-workshop updates

Commands used to set up the VM image These are the commands used to install the software used in the workshop on the stock Google Cloud Ubuntu 20.04 image.

2022 ASM NGS workshop

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