High-Performance Computing enables the CNAG to manage the over 600 Gbases of sequencing data produced every day, this is the equivalent of completely sequencing six human genomes every 24 hours.In this Workshop, Bull and the CNAG will explain why HPC is so important in the analysis of omics data.

AGENDA
09:00 Registration

10:00 Wellcome & Intro: Bull in the management of omics data Natalia Jiménez, Bull’s Health & Life Sciences business manager

10:15 Ivo Gut, CNAG director

11:00 Sample preparation and sequencing (Marta Gut, CNAG Head of Sequencing)

11:45 - Coffee break

12:15 Genomic data analysis in the CNAG: development and production pipelines (Paolo Ribeca**, CNAG Algorithm Development Team Leader)

13:00 Why high performance computing is needed? (Rafael Grimán, Bull’s Supercomputation architect at Bull and César Tapias, EMC2’s Isilon Regional Territory Manager)

13:45 Lunch and visit to the CNAG