Abstract
The Bioinformatics Training Platform (BTP) has been developed to provide access to the computational infrastructure required to deliver sophisticated hands-on bioinformatics training courses. The BTP is a cloud-based solution that is in active use for delivering next-generation sequencing training to Australian researchers at geographically dispersed locations. The BTP was built to provide an easy, accessible, consistent and cost-effective approach to delivering workshops at host universities and organizations with a high demand for bioinformatics training but lacking the dedicated bioinformatics training suites required. To support broad uptake of the BTP, the platform has been made compatible with multiple cloud infrastructures. The BTP is an open-source and open-access resource. To date, 20 training workshops have been delivered to over 700 trainees at over 10 venues across Australia using the BTP.
Highlights
The rapid advance and accessibility of genomic and other ‘omic’ technologies is driving a worldwide demand for bioinformatics training for life scientists
We have developed the cloud-based Bioinformatics Training Platform (BTP) to automate the provisioning of computational resources, training materials and software tools on-demand for delivering a 3 day next-generation sequencing (NGS) hands-on bioinformatics training workshop
Creating a new virtual machine image for Amazon Web Services (AWS) A Packer template for building the BTP virtual machine images as Amazon Machine Images (AMI) is included in the BTP orchestration repository
Summary
The rapid advance and accessibility of genomic and other ‘omic’ technologies is driving a worldwide demand for bioinformatics training for life scientists. More often than not this is further complicated by a lack of suitable computational resources sufficient for analysing data and limited local data storage for the larger analysis and reference data sets To overcome these issues, we have developed the cloud-based Bioinformatics Training Platform (BTP) to automate the provisioning of computational resources, training materials and software tools on-demand for delivering a 3 day NGS hands-on bioinformatics training workshop. Puppet is a configuration management system that installs the software tools on the cloud images (NeCTAR, AWS) and standalone images (VirtualBox, VMWare) during virtual machine image creation It installs the data sets onto the standalone images. These Packer templates are found within the orchestration subdirectory of the workshop repository (https://github.com/BPA-CSIROWorkshops/btp-workshop-ngs.git). An example of a data set metadata file based on
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