News and Announcements¶
BV-BRC Workshop at Argonne National Laboratory, June 26-30, 2023¶
The BV-BRC (Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center) team will be offering a Bioinformatics Workshop on June 26-30, 2023, at Argonne National Laboratory in the suburbs of Chicago, IL. The workshop will show researchers how to analyze and explore bacterial and viral pathogen data using the BV-BRC website, which is a merger of the two long running bacterial and viral BRC resources - PATRIC and IRD/ViPR.
This workshop will have two separate components, and researchers can register for one or both. The bacterial component, concentrating on analyzing antimicrobial resistance data, will take place on Monday, June 26th to mid-day on Wednesday, June 28th. The viral component will begin in the afternoon of Wednesday, June 28th and concludes on Friday, June 30th.
Researchers can sign up for one or both of these sessions and must state their preference(s) when they register (see Registration below).
The workshop will consist of interactive hands-on training sessions. During Days 1-2 (June 26-27) the workshop will concentrate on exploring and analyzing bacterial antimicrobial resistance data. Participants will learn how to search for public datasets of interest and perform genomic, comparative genomic, metagenomic, and transcriptomic analyses using various analysis services and tools at BV-BRC. The morning session of Day 3 (June 28) will focus on using the BV-BRC command-line interface for programmatic search and retrieval of data and submission of analysis jobs. Users will also have the opportunity to work with their own data and analysis problems with assistance from the BV-BRC team members.
The viral component begins on the afternoon of Day 3 (June 28), concentrating on searching for data performing phylogenetic and comparative genomic analyses. Day 4 (June 29) focuses on sequence assembly and annotation, subspecies classification, protein structure, surveillance data exploration, and transcriptomic analysis. Day 5 (June 30) includes metagenomic analysis, an introduction to the command line interface, and hands-on exercises.
REGISTRATION
To register for the workshop, send an email to lhundley@anl.gov. Registration is limited to 75 people, and will be accepted based on the order the emails are received. Be sure to indicate whether you plan to attend the bacterial or viral session, or both. You should receive a confirmation email within 2 business days. If you don’t receive one, you can also reach us at help@bv-brc.org. BV-BRC workshops tend to fill up very quickly, so please register soon if you would like to attend.
The workshop is free to attend, but participants must arrange and pay for their own travel, meals, and lodging. Light refreshments will be available. There is also a cafe and grill in a nearby building. There are outdoor seating areas with gazebos, which can be used during breaks and lunch time.
REAL ID REQUIREMENT
Starting Wednesday, May 3, 2023, Argonne National Laboratory visitors who are 18 years old or older MUST have a form of identification compliant with the REAL ID Act to enter the site. This updated identification policy puts the Lab in compliance with the REAL ID Act, passed by the United States Congress in 2005, which establishes minimum security standards for people accessing federal facilities. Acceptable forms of ID include:
REAL ID-compliant driver’s license/ state identification card from Illinois or another state
U.S. passport/U.S. passport card
Foreign government-issued passport
HSPD-12 PIV card
Permanent resident card
DHS trusted traveler cards (Global Entry, NEXUS, SENTRI, FAST)
U.S. Department of Defense ID, including IDs issued to dependents
Border crossing card
State-issued enhanced driver’s license (MI, MN, NY, VT, WA)
Federally recognized, tribal-issued photo ID
Canadian provincial driver’s license or Indian and Northern Affairs Canada card
Transportation worker identification credential
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Employment Authorization Card (I-766)
U.S. Merchant Mariner Credential
Veterans Health Identification Card
If visitors cannot provide one of the above forms of identifications, they can show one document from List B AND one document from List C of the USCIS I-9 form:
LIST B:
Non-compliant state issued driver’s license/ID
Voter’s registration card
U.S. military card (including dependent’s IDs)
School or university ID
LIST C:
Social Security card
Birth certificate
Certification of report of birth
U.S. c ID card (I-197)
Resident citizen ID card(I-179)
DHS employment authorization
COVID-19 SAFETY PROTOCOLS
Please note the COVID-19 safety protocols currently in place at the Argonne National Laboratory. They are subject to change based on COVID levels at the time of the workshop.
Face coverings are not required.
Social distancing is optional. The desks in the workshop venue will be spread out to allow social distancing if desired.
Participants should self monitor for symptoms.
Vaccine boosters are recommended.
LOCATION
AGENDA
Day 1 - Monday, June 26 - Bacterial
9:00 am Bacteria - Information, registration, and overview
* Welcome
* BV-BRC registration
* Overview (www.bv-brc.org)
* Creating genome groups
10:15 am Taxonomic Classification
* Description of Kraken2
* Uploading reads or contigs and submitting job
* Saving classified or unclassified sequences
* Viewing and interpreting the results
10:45 am Metagenomic Read Mapping
* Description of CARD and VFDB
* Uploading reads and submitting job
* Viewing and interpreting results
11:00 am Break
11:15 am FASTQ Utilities
* Description of FASTQ files and service
* Selecting pipeline (Trim, FastQC, Paired read, Align)
* Uploading reads and submitting job
* Viewing and interpreting results
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Metagenomic Binning
* Description of algorithm
* Uploading reads or contigs and submitting the job
* Viewing and interpreting the results
2:00 pm Comprehensive Genome Analysis Service
* Description of assembly and annotation algorithms
* Uploading reads or contigs and submitting job
* Viewing and interpreting results
3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm Similar Genome Finder Service
* Description of MASH/MinHash
* Uploading genome sequences, reads, or contigs
* Submitting job
* Viewing and interpreting results
3:45 pm Phylogenetic Tree Building Service
* Creating a genome group
* Determining if selected genomes are "treeable"
* Description of algorithm and submitting tree-building job
* Viewing and interpreting results
* Newick file download
4:45 pm Question and Answer Session and Hands-on Work
5:00 pm Day 1 Adjourn
Day 2 - Tuesday, June 27 - Bacterial
9:00 am Review of Day 1
9:15 am BLAST
* Description of BLAST
* Choosing BLAST database, parameters, and job submission
* Viewing and interpreting the results
10:00 am Comparative Services (Protein Families, Pathways, and Subsystems)
* Description of protein families and job submission
* Finding the pan, core, and accessory genomes
* Visualizing and manipulating the heatmap viewer
* Finding specific differences, downloading, and saving results into private workspace
* Comparing pathways on pathway map and heatmap
* Finding specific differences, downloading, and saving results into private workspace
* Description of Subsystems
* Exploring subsystems using the tabular and heatmap views
* Finding specific differences, downloading, and saving results
11:00 am Break
11:15 am Proteome Comparison
* Selecting genomes for study
* Visualization of compared genomes
* Download and Analysis of Results
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Compare Region Viewer
* Feature overview
* Description of calculations for gene neighborhoods
* Adjusting the view
* Viewing data of interest (genome and feature groups)
1:30 pm SNP and MSA Variation Service
* Description of algorithm
* Selection of genes and job submission
* Viewing and interpreting the results
2:00 pm Gene Tree
* Description of algorithm
* Selection of data and job submission
* Viewing and interpreting the results
2:30 pm Break
2:45 pm Primer Design
* Description of algorithm
* Adjusting parameters and job submission
* Viewing and interpreting the results
3:00 pm Variation Service
* Uploading reads
* Description of aligners and SNP callers
* Discussion and selection of target genomes
* Downloading and using data
* Interpreting results
3:45 pm RNA-Seq Pipeline
* Discussion of algorithm and choosing a strategy
* Uploading RNA-seq data
* Selecting genomes and job submission
* Viewing and interpreting the results
4:30 pm Install Command Line Interface
4:45 pm Question and Answer Session and Hands-on Work
5:00 pm Day 2 Adjourn
Day 3 - Wednesday, June 28 - Bacterial and Viral
9:00 am Command Line Interface
* Logging in
* Searching for data
* Creating groups from data selections
* Downloading data
10:00 am Job submission via command line
* Uploading private data (singular or batch)
* Submitting assembly jobs (singular or batch)
* Submitting annotation jobs (singular or batch)
* Discussion of command line submission to other services
11:00 am Break
11:15 am Final demo on job submission via command line
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Viruses - Information, registration, and overview
* Welcome
* Registration
* BV-BRC overview (www.bv-brc.org)
* SARS-CoV-2 variant tracking
2:00 pm Sequence search and workspace
* Genome filtering
* Advanced search
* Workspace groups
* Uploading sequences to workspace
3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm Phylogenetic analysis
* Genomic sequence selection
* Multiple sequence alignment
* Phyogenetic inferencing
* Viewing and interpreting results
4:15 pm Statistical sequence comparison
* Protein sequence selection
* Metadata-drive comparative analysis service
* Viewing and interpreting results
4:45 pm Question and Answer Session and Hands-on Work
5:00 pm Adjourn
Day 4 -Thursday, June 29 – Viral
9:00 am Review of Day 3
9:15 am BLAST
* Description of BLAST
* Choosing BLAST database, parameters, and job submission
* Viewing and interpreting the results
10:00 am Sequence assembly and annotation
* Description of assembly and annotation algorithms
* Uploading reads or contigs and submitting job
* Viewing and interpreting results
* Preparing Genbank submission
10:45 am Break
11:00 am Subspecies classification
* Overview of pplacer and reference trees
* Viruses covered
* Classification of user sequences
* Search by subspecies
11:30 am Primer Design
* Description of algorithm
* Adjusting parameters and job submission
* Viewing and interpreting the results
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Immune epitope exploration
* Description of SNP callers and aligners
* Uploading reads
* Discussion and selection of target genomes
* Viewing and interpreting the results
1:30 pm 3D protein structures
* Experimentally-determine protein structures
* Predicted protein structures
* Predicting structures using AlphaFold2
* Comparative structure analysis
2:30 pm Break
2:45 pm Other data – Influenza surveillance
* Selecting surveillance records
* GoogleMap view
3:00 pm Other data – host response omics data
* Overview of host response experiments
* Host factor biosets
* Enrichment analysis
* Heatmap and clustering
3:45 pm RNA-Seq analysis service
* Discussion of algorithm and choosing a strategy
* Uploading RNA-seq data
* Selecting genomes and job submission
* Viewing and interpreting the results
4:30 pm Install Command line interface
* Installing the Command Line Interface
4:45 pm Question and Answer Session and Hands-on Work
5:00 pm Adjourn
Day 5 - Friday, June 30 – Viral
9:00 am Review of Day 4
9:15 am Comparative genomics exercise overview
* OneHealth – influenza virus at the human-animal interface
9:30 am Comparative genomics exercise (students exercise)
10:45 am Break
11:00 am Command Line Interface
* Logging in
* Searching for data
* Creating groups from data selections
* Downloading data
* Other CLI services
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Metagenomics analysis
* Metagenomic read mapping for bacteria
* Taxonomic classification
* Metagenomic binning
2:30 pm Workshop concludes
BV-BRC Workshop at the University of Virginia, April 25-27, 2023¶
Dear BV-BRC users, we have reached the limit for the maximum number of in-person participants for this workshop. The registration is now CLOSED. Please subscribe to the BV-BRC mailing list or follow us on social media to learn about upcoming workshops and webinars.
The BV-BRC (Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center) team will be offering a Bioinformatics Workshop on April 25-27, 2023, at the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville, VA. The workshop will be held at the UVA North Fork Discovery Park, approximately 10 miles north of UVA grounds. The workshop will show researchers how to analyze and explore antimicrobial resistance data using the BV-BRC website, which is a merger of the two long running bacterial and viral BRC resources, PATRIC and IRD/ViPR, respectively.
The workshop will consist of interactive hands-on training sessions. During the first two days, participants will learn how to search for public datasets of interest and perform genomic, comparative genomic, metagenomic, and transcriptomic analysis using various analysis services and tools at BV-BRC. The third day of the workshop will focus on using command-line interface for programmatic search and retrieval of the data and job submissions, as well as users working with their own data and analysis problems with the help from the BV-BRC team members.
REGISTRATION
To register for the workshop, send an email to arw3s@virginia.edu. Registration is limited to 50 people, and will be accepted based on the order the emails are received. You should receive a confirmation email within 2 business days. If you don’t receive one, you can also reach us at help@bv-brc.org. BV-BRC workshops tend to fill up very quickly, so please register soon if you would like to attend.
The workshop is free to attend, but participants must arrange and pay for their own travel, meals, and lodging. Light refreshments will be available. There is also a small coffee and snack bar in the building and a cafe and grill in the adjacent building.
Upcoming BV-BRC Online Webinars: RSV and Influenza: Nov 29 and Dec 13, 2022¶
The BV-BRC (Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center) team will be offering 2 Bioinformatics Webinars on November 29 and December 13, 2022. These webinars will cover the bioinformatic data types available for Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Influenza Virus that can be found in the Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Research Center (BV-BRC) database. We will also demo the use of several tools and services that can be used for RSV bioinformatic analysis.
BV-BRC Workshop at Argonne National Laboratory, December 14-16, 2022¶
NOTICE:
Dear BV-BRC users, we have reached the limit for the maximum number of in-person participants for this workshop. The registration is closed. Please subscribe to the BV-BRC mailing list or follow us on social media to learn about upcoming workshops and webinars.
The BV-BRC (Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center) team will be offering a Bioinformatics Workshop on December 14-16, 2022, at Argonne National Laboratory in the suburbs of Chicago, IL. The workshop will show researchers how to analyze and explore antimicrobial resistance data using the BV-BRC website, which is a merger of the two long running bacterial and viral BRC resources, PATRIC and IRD/ViPR, respectively.
The workshop will consist of interactive hands-on training sessions. During the first two days, participants will learn how to search for public datasets of interest and perform genomic, comparative genomic, metagenomic, and transcriptomic analysis using various analysis services and tools at BV-BRC. The third day of the workshop will focus on using command-line interface for programmatic search and retrieval of the data and job submissions, as well as users working with their own data and analysis problems with the help from the BV-BRC team members.
COVID-19: Please note the COVID-19 restrictions and safety guidance currently in place at the Argonne National Laboratory.
All visitors must be fully vaccinated or provide accepted proof of negative COVID-19 test results that are less than 72 hours old.
Face coverings are required, except to the extent necessary to eat or drink when maintaining appropriate physical distance, or when an individual is isolated in an enclosed space.
We will keep the desks at least 6 feet apart from each other at the workshop venue to maintain safe physical distance.
There are outdoor seating areas with gazebos, which can be used during breaks and lunch time. Face coverings may be removed while outside and socially distancing.
LOCATION
AGENDA
Day 1 - Wednesday, December 14
9:00 am Argonne information, BV-BRC registration, Overview (www.bv-brc.org)
10:00 am FASTQ Utilities
* Description of FASTQ files and service
* Selecting pipeline (Trim, FastQC, Paired read, Align)
* Uploading reads and submitting job
* Viewing and interpreting results
10:45 am Taxonomic Classification
* Description of Kraken2
* Uploading reads or contigs and submitting job
* Saving classified or unclassified sequences
* Viewing and interpreting the results
11:15 am Break
11:30 am Similar Genome Finder Service
* Description of MASH/MinHash
* Uploading genome sequences, reads or contigs
* Submitting job
* Viewing and interpreting results
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Comprehensive Genome Analysis Service
* Description of assembly and annotation algorithms
* Uploading reads or contigs and submitting job
* Viewing and interpreting results
1:45 pm Metagenomic Binning
* Description of algorithm
* Uploading reads or contigs and submitting the job
* Viewing and interpreting the results
2:15 pm Break
2:30 pm Phylogenetic Tree Building Service
* Creating a genome group
* Determining if selected genomes are “treeableâ€
* Description of algorithm and submitting tree-building job
* Viewing and interpreting results
* Newick file download
3:00 pm Comparative Services (Protein Families, Pathways and Subsystems)
* Description of protein families and job submission
* Finding the pan, core, and accessory genomes
* Visualizing and manipulating the heatmap viewer
* Finding specific differences, downloading, and saving results into private workspace
* Comparing pathways on pathway map and heatmap
* Finding specific differences, downloading, and saving results into private workspace
* Description of Subsystems
* Exploring subsystems using the tabular and heatmap views
* Finding specific differences, downloading, and saving results
4:45 pm Question and Answer Session and Hands on Work
5:00 pm Day 1 Adjourn
Day 2 -Thursday, December 15
9:00 am Review of Day 1
9:15 am Proteome Comparison
* Feature Overview
* Description of calculations for gene neighborhoods
* Adjusting the view
* Seeing data of interest (genome and feature groups)
10:00 am Compare Region Viewer
* Genome selection and job selection
* Comparing pathways on pathway map and heatmap
* Finding specific differences, downloading, and saving results into private workspace
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Primer Design
* Description of algorithm
* Adjusting parameters and job submission
* Viewing and interpreting the results
11:30 am Genome Alignment
* Description of MAUVE
* Selection of genomes and job submission
* Viewing the results
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm BLAST
* Description of BLAST
* Choosing BLAST database, parameters, and job submission
* Viewing and interpreting the results
1:30 pm SNP and MNP Variation Service
* Description of SNP callers and aligners
* Uploading reads
* Discussion and selection of target genomes
* Viewing and interpreting the results
2:00 pm Gene Tree
* Description of algorithm
* Selection of data and job submission
* Viewing and interpreting the results
2:30 pm Break
2:45 pm Multiple Sequence Alignment and SNP view
* Description of algorithm
* Selection of genes and job submission
* Viewing and interpreting the results
3:00 pm RNA-Seq Pipeline
* Discussion of algorithm and choosing a strategy
* Uploading RNA-seq data
* Selecting genomes and job submission
* Viewing and interpreting the results
4:00 pm Install Command line interface
* Installing the Command Line Interface
4:15 pm Question and Answer Session and Hands on Work
5:00 pm Day 2 Adjourn
Day 3 - Friday, December 16
9:00 am Command Line Interface
* Logging in
* Searching for data
* Creating groups from data selections
* Downloading data
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Job submission via command line
* Uploading private data (singular or batch)
* Submitting assembly jobs (singular or batch)
* Submitting annotation jobs (singular or batch)
* Discussion of command line submission to other services
12:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Working on specific use cases and participant data
4:00 pm Final questions
5:00 pm Workshop concludes
Monkeypox and Orthopoxvirus Mini-Symposium¶
Discussion of bioinformatic resources and tools available and in development for the purpose of studying monkeypox virus. Will also include a brief primer on monkeypox virus, as well as research presentations focusing on the recent outbreak.
News Articles Archives:
- Archives 2023
- Archives 2022
- Upcoming BV-BRC Online Webinars: RSV and Influenza: Nov 29 and Dec 13, 2022
- BV-BRC Workshop at Argonne National Laboratory, December 14-16, 2022
- Monkeypox and Orthopoxvirus Mini-Symposium
- PATRIC to BV-BRC Final Transition Schedule
- BV-BRC (PATRIC & IRD/ViPR) Workshop at the University of Virginia, August 30 - September 1, 2022
- BV-BRC (PATRIC & IRD/ViPR) Workshop at Argonne National Laboratory, July 19-21, 2022
- BV-BRC (PATRIC) Workshop at ASM Microbe
- Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens Webinar Series
- Introduction to BV-BRC Webinar Series
- BV-BRC Public Beta Release
- Archives 2021
- Archives 2020