Applications and workflows on the CGC: an update on available pipelines and how to run a GWAS on the cloud

This May, the CGC Webinar Series features a talk by Drs. Zélia Worman and Rowan Beck from Seven Bridges. Zelia is a Program Manager and Rowan is a Community Engagement Manager, both working on the Cancer Genomics Cloud.

In this upcoming webinar, they will talk about the new tools and datasets that are available on the Cancer Genomics Cloud (CGC), and will demonstrate how to run a Genome-wide association study (GWAS) on the CGC. With the growth of large-scale genomics, it’s hard to keep track of all the different tools and gold standards to analyze a particular dataset. The CGC not only hosts petabytes of public data integrated with the Cancer Research Data Commons ecosystem, but also provides the tools and pipelines to analyze it. As more data is added to the CGC, the public apps gallery has been updated to meet our users’ needs. In this webinar, we will highlight the new and updated applications and workflows to run variant calling, epigenetic studies, and long sequence reads, among others. We will also demonstrate how to perform a GWAS using the power of cloud computing.

Using the CGC, users have access to public genome cancer data without any requirement of software installation or system configuration. This setup  provides access to comprehensive pan-cancer genome analyses and facilitates data mining in wide research areas, such as therapeutic discovery process. As GWAS are fairly computationally intensive, using the cloud can provide an accessible platform for all researchers, particularly ones that do not have access to a high performance computing platform.