One of H3ABioNet’s deliverables is to investigate the use of Cloud computing for H3Africa data analysis. It was recently agreed that important pipelines should be made available as Docker containers that can be deployed on public or private clouds. The Wits’ Node has made a start by “containerizing” the Wits GWAS pipeline, and a Cloud Computing Task Force has recently been established in H3ABioNet to examine and implement the use of cloud based technologies for bioinformatics pipelines relevant to H3Africa researchers. In order to further the work of this task force we will be holding a Cloud computing hackathon.
H3ABioNet staff and students with working knowledge of Cloud computing and developing containers International collaborators with expertise in developing Docker containers
To bring together H3ABioNet staff and students who have some working knowledge of Cloud computing and enable them to interact with international partners with experience in Docker pipelines
- To assess existing Docker containers for relevant pipelines
- To develop Docker containers for specific pipelines of relevance to H3Africa
- To work on interoperability between containers and portability
- To document the pipelines and make them available from the H3ABioNet website and/or GitHub
- To document the available public and private clouds with the appropriate infrastructure for these pipelines to be run on
Classroom applications
Participant applications
Participants will contribute towards the development of containerized workflows for the various analysis streams defined during the hackathon
The selection will be partly through an open call for applications and part invitation. As this will be a working meeting, participants are expected to have good programming ability (Python is likely to be the working language) and some knowledge of some of the following areas bioinformatics, cloud computing, Docker, pipeline construction (we don’t expect everyone to know everything and will have multi-skilled teams).
