BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260829T102937Z UID:7e4dce44-ea9c-402e-8505-474d7fffdd78 DTSTART:20200430T160000Z DTEND:20200528T170000Z DESCRIPTION:The Galaxy Community and ELIXIR organise a webinar series to de monstrate how open software and public research infrastructures can be use d in analysing and publishing SARS-CoV2 data.\n\nIn a series of five webin ar sessions\, experts from ELIXIR and the Galaxy community in the US and E urope will demonstrate how open access and open science are fundamental fo r fast and efficient response to public health crises. The focus will be o n research reproducibility and transparency\, using exclusively open sourc e tools and the Galaxy platform.\n\nThe goal of the series is to demonstra te publicly accessible infrastructure and workflows for SARS-CoV-2 data an alyses. The webinar sessions will guide participants step-by-step through setting up and executing the SARS-CoV-2 data analyses workflows developed by the global Galaxy community. After completing the series\, participant s will be able to fully reproduce the workflows and conduct their own anal yses of SARS-CoV-2 data.\n\nThe webinar series will start on 30 April 2020 with the first introductory session. Subsequent sessions will take place in weekly intervals.\n\nMore information about Galaxy analyses of COVID-19 data: covid19.galaxyproject.org\n\nProgramme:\n\nSession 1: Introduction to Galaxy and the Galaxy workflows for SARS-CoV-2 data analysis\n\n30 Apri l 2020\, 17.00-18.00 CEST (starts at 16.00 BST\, 11.00 EDT\, 8.00 PDT)\n\n The first session will introduce the Galaxy platform and other public rese arch infrastructure to be used throughout the webinar series. It will also explain the motivation behind the Galaxy COVID-19 projects and explain th e benefits of open reproducible research and transparent and interoperable analytics.\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\n Anton Nekrutenko\, Professor of Biochemistr y and Molecular Biology at Penn State University (USA) and co-founder of t he Galaxy Project.\n Sergei Pond\, Professor of Biology\, Institute for Ge nomics and Evolutionary Medicine\, Temple University\, US\n Frederik Coppe ns\,  Head of Node of ELIXIR Belgium and Co-Lead of the ELIXIR Galaxy Com munity\n Björn Grüning\, Technical Coordinator of ELIXIR Germany and Co- Lead of the ELIXIR Galaxy Community\n\n\nRegister\n\n\nSession 2: Genomics /Variant Calling \n\n7 May 2020\, 17.00-18.00 CEST (starts at 16.00 BST\, 11.00 EDT\, 8.00 PDT)\n\nThe second session will present the initial anal ysis of the SARS-CoV-2 genome\, published on bioRxiv. It will guide the pa rticipants through accessing and collecting the available datasets\, the g enome assembly and the analysis of the  within-sample sequence variants. It will also explain how to deploy on a Galaxy instance all the tools and workflows needed to reproduce the analysis.\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\n Anton Nekru tenko\, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State Univ ersity (USA) and co-founder of the Galaxy Project.\n Wolfgang Maier\, Post Doc at the University of Freiburg and member of the European Galaxy team\n \n\nRegister\n\n\nSession 3: Cheminformatics: Screening of the main protea se\n\n14 May 2020\, 17.00-18.00 CEST (starts at 16.00 BST\, 11.00 EDT\, 8.00 PDT)\n\nThis session will present the Galaxy workflow to identify can didate molecules for COVID-19 drug treatment\, using molecular docking sim ulation of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease. These simulations are used to pre dict the binding positions of the candidate molecules in the protease bind ing site\, score the quality of each pose\, and compare the results with e xperimental crystallographic data.\n\nThe computationally intensive workfl ow was executed through a distributed compute network available via the Ga laxy Europe platform. The webinar will present methods and workflows for t he identification of potential COVID-19 drug candidates. Special emphasis will be given to the complex methods that have been applied and that have consumed more than 25 years of CPU and GPU time.\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\n Tim Du dgeon\, Founder and CEO of Informatics Matters\n Simon Bray\, PhD at the U niversity of Freiburg and member of the European Galaxy team\n\n\nRegister \n\n\nSession 4: Evolution of the Virus\n\n20 May 2020\, 17.00-18.00 CEST (starts at 16.00 BST\, 11.00 EDT\, 8.00 PDT)\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\n Sergei P ond\, Professor of Biology\, Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medic ine\, Temple University\, US\n\n\nRegister\n\n\nSession 5: Behind the scen es: Global Open Infrastructures at work \n\n28 May 2020\, 17.00-18.00 CE ST (starts at 16.00 BST\, 11.00 EDT\, 8.00 PDT)\n\nThis session will guid e the participants how they can use the Galaxy compute capacities to run t heir own analysis. It will present the Pulsar network that connects data c entres and High Performance Computing clusters to share their computation power in support of the Galaxy Europe users and provide examples of how to submit an analysis job from the user’s perspective.\n\nSpeakers: TBC\n\ nRegister\n\n\nAcknowledgement\n\nThe analyses have been performed using t he Galaxy platform and open source tools from BioConda. Tools were run using XSEDE resources maintained by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC )\, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)\, and Indiana University  in the U.S.\, de.NBI\,  VSC   cloud resources and  IFB cluster reso urces on the European side\, STFC-IRIS at the Diamond Light Source\, and  ARDC cloud resources in Australia.\n\n                                       SUMMARY:Galaxy-ELIXIR webinar series: FAIR data and Open Infrastructures to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.elixir-europe.org/events/webinar-galaxy-elixir-co vid19 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR