Introduction to Bioinformatics Tools for HPC

Workshop Outline

• What is bioinformatics?
• Types of bioinformatics analyses
• Databases
• Sequencing technologies
• File formats
• HPC overview - loading modules
• Software demos:
  • • FastQC - quality control
  • • Cutadapt - cleaning data
  • • Bowtie2 - alignment
  • • Samtools - format conversion
  • • PacBio SMRTools
• Future Directions