National Center for Multi-Scale Study of Cellular Networks
Columbia University, New York, NY
Director: Dr. Andrea Califano

Email Keyonna Queen; Phone: 301-594-6321
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Presentation and demo of (1) the genomics analysis tools developed by the Center and (2) geWorkbench, the Center’s bioinformatics platform. The presenter will be Dr. Andrea Califano, the Center’s Director.

NIH Campus, Bethesda MD
Natcher Conference Center, Lower Level, Conference Room A

We present geWorkbench, the bioinformatics platform of the National Center for the Multi-scale Analysis of Genomic and Cellular Networks. Leveraging its framework for tool interoperability, geWorkbench provides users with an extensible suite of tools for integrative genomic analysis. It is built on an open-source architecture that simplifies the development of new analytical and visualization tools as well as the incorporation of pre-existing components. The resulting system provides seamless access to a multitude of both local and remote data and computational services.
While the geWorkbench framework already supports a variety of bioinformatics algorithms, it is most notably the platform on which all MAGNet tools will be implemented and made available to the Biomedical Research community. Furthermore, it interoperates with several of the existing platforms for genomic data analysis, including GenePattern, Cytoscape, GoMiner, and the R Proteomics package.
In this presentation we will provide an overview of the application design, including its interoperability and workflow frameworks, followed by a demo showcasing how the application can be used to address some real biological problems. We will also discuss and demo some of the tools developed by MAGNet investigators which are slated for geWorkbench integration.

MAGNet Brochure; pdf (14 MB)

9:00 a.m - 9:45 a.m.