compiling a list of members in our community

[agbiotec]

Dear Cloud BioLinux users and developers,

   first of all a great thanks to everyone for your participation on this project,

trying out Cloud BioLinux and providing feedback as a user and contributing

code as developer. I hope we keep and increase this list's traffic in 2012 !

   I am trying to compile a list of all the people using Cloud BioLinux (even if

you just simply tried it once, it counts a lot!), so I would like to ask you for 20sec

of your time to send as a reply to this thread the following information:

  - your home institution (including city/country so I can avoid Googling!)

  - if possible half or one sentence with keywords for your research and / if / how 

    you used  Cloud BioLinux for it

  - feel free to add more details, such as your real name, lab that you are working etc

    if you would like

Many thanks in advance to everyone for your responses, and again for your

participation in this project !

 best regards,

Ntino

[skapie]

Hi Ntino

I am starting out with CBL.
I am interested in next-gen sequencing of microbes, genome-scale
systems biology and currently busy with
a project on biofuel production. I intend to use it for annotation of
microbial genomes. I am not sure yet about
what the options are for assembly in CBL. But keen to find out and
perhaps contribute something along those lines.

Best wishes

Du Toit Schabort
University of the Free State
Bloemfontein
South Africa

[Ross Whetten]

Hi Ntino,
I have used Cloudbiolinux for analysis of next-gen sequencing data
from forest trees (firs, pines), both for transcriptome assembly and
for SNP discovery. I am now working on using NGS data for genotyping,
and expect to use CBL to process data on thousands of samples once I
get the technical issues sorted out.
I am also teaching a course on analysis of deep sequencing data for
graduate students, using CBL on EC2 as the teaching platform so that
the students can take what they learn in the course and apply the same
tools in the same working environment to their research data.
Regards,
Ross Whetten
Dept of Forestry & Environmental Resources
North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC USA