About the Bioinformatics seminar

Research in the biosciences is undergoing a transformation as a result of huge amounts of information generated in genome projects, and increasingly depends upon bioinformatics for the effective organisation and analysis of such data and management of experiments. The Bioinformatics Institute at the University of Auckland and Biomatters Ltd are responding to this transformation by developing workflow and computational software and applications, enabling researchers in New Zealand to access and analyse biosciences databases from their desktop.

The 2007 round of the KAREN Capability Build Fund supported Biomatters Ltd and The Bioinformatics Institute in a collaborative venture to make available a suite of grid-computing bioinformatics applications for BeSTGRID users called NZBioGrid. NZBioGrid is built on the bioinformatics software 'Geneious' and gives desktop access to public databases, to standardised workflows or pipelines for data analyses, and to shared computational capacity over KAREN.

In this free virtual seminar, Allen Rodrigo and Steven Stones-Havas will describe the features that are implemented as part of the NZBioGrid.

Your presenters

Allen Rodrigo is Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and the Director of New Zealand's Bioinformatics Institute at the University of Auckland.  His research interests are in bioinformatics and computational biology, phylogenetics and evolutionary genetics, and the molecular evolution of viruses.

Steven Stones-Havas is the Biomatters lead programmer on the NZBioGrid project.  Steven was educated at the University of Auckland, receiving a degree in Computer Science and Physics.  Steven is the Technical Manager for Grid Computing at Biomatters Ltd and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Bioinformatics Institute.

More information

Bioinformatics Institute
Biomatters Ltd

When

10:00 -11:00am, Wednesday 29 July 2009. [The conference will be open from 9:30am to allow you to test your connection]

How to participate

This seminar is being held via video conference, using the KAREN video conferencing bridge. Details for how to connect are provided below. The bridge can accommodate up to 30 participants at one time.

Note: Due to the changes to the video conferencing bridge, the streaming service is currently unavailable. You will need to connect directly to this event to participate.

Connection details

IP address of the bridge: 210.7.46.10
Conference ID: 4000
Conference name: Bioinformatics showcase

Help in connecting

If you need help in participating in this seminar:

1. contact your in-house audio/visual team for help, or
2. contact the AVCC helpdesk

Updated 27 July 2009