Announcements
Published: Feb. 12, 2026
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The CQLS is pleased to announce our new Illumina MiSeq i100 sequencer. As Illumina phases out their original MiSeq we have upgraded to the new MiSeq i100. The CQLS MiSeq i100 sequencing service is now available.
Illumina’s new… Read More
Published: Feb. 9, 2026
The Research Computing Office (RCO) Users Group @ OSU is hosing an interactive talk.
Date: February 11th, 2026
Time: 12-1pm
Place: Kidder 202 or ZOOM, (note different room this week)
Talk Title: Utilizing GPUs in Genomics: 3 Case Studies
Speaker: Sam Talbot (CQLS)
Other… Read More
Published: Jan. 14, 2026
The newly formed Research Computing Office (RCO) Users Group@OSU would like to invite everyone to our upcoming interactive talks. This term the CQLS Bioinformatics Users Group (BUG) and the Supercomputer Townhall will host combined users group meetings. The users group meeting consists of… Read More
Published: Dec. 18, 2025
CQLS is pleased to announce a number of training opportunities during Winter 2026 including Introduction to Python and Environmental Sequence Analysis. More information can be found on our Workshops web page. As always feel free to send inquiries to Teaching… Read More
Published: Dec. 5, 2025
The CQLS lab will be closed or minimally staffed from December 22, 2025 through January 1st, 2026. Call ahead if you need to contact staff in person. Lab phone 541-737-3413.
Published: Oct. 21, 2025
Please join us for the BUG Seminar series on Wednesday December 3rd, 12-1pm in ALS 3005, or via zoom
“Speciation and gene flow: Insights from Madagascar and Beyond"
- Dr. Katie Everson (Assistant Professor, Dept. of Integrative Biology)
Published: Oct. 21, 2025
Please join us for the BUG Seminar series on Wednesday November 12th, 12-1pm in ALS 3005, or via zoom
“ARCs supercomputer town hall: How Pixi addresses common research and AI computing challenges"
- Ed Davis (Bioinformatics Scientist, CQLS)
Published: Oct. 21, 2025
Please join us for the BUG Seminar series on Wednesday October 29th, 12-1pm in ALS 3005, or via zoom.
“The complete genome of a songbird: ie. how birds pack ‘n play their genomes"
- Dr. Giulio Formenti (Research Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Vertebrate Genome Laboratory, The… Read More
Published: Oct. 21, 2025
Please join us for the BUG Seminar series on Wednesday October 15th, 12-1pm in ALS 3005, or via zoom
Navigating Research Computing: CQLS Operations, Slurm, and Open Forum
- Biocomputing and Bioinformatics staff (CQLS)
Published: Oct. 21, 2025
The CQLS was awarded a 2025 Research Equipment Reserve Fund (RERF) to purchase a new Illumina MiSeq i100.
The CQLS has run an Illumina MiSeq for 12 years as the center of a highly successful low-range sequencing service. Primarily used for microbiome, environmental, and amplicon samples, the… Read More
Published: May 29, 2025
The CQLS is updating fees that will go into effect July 1, 2025. Fees are generally re-calculated yearly but the CQLS hasn't updated many fees since 2022. New fees now show up on the CQLS fee page are in effect in RELMS for orders or reservations starting July 1st. Please… Read More
Published: April 29, 2025
We are participating in Dam Proud Day for the first time this year. Support for us will help many across OSU's departments and colleges access cutting edge technologies for their research.
The Center for Quantitative Life Sciences (CQLS) facilitates data-intensive life science research at… Read More
Published: March 7, 2025
As Spring term 2025 approaches, the CQLS is pleased to announce several training opportunities, including Introduction to UNIX/Linux / Command-Line Data Analysis and Genotyping by Sequencing.
The delivery of the Genotyping by Sequencing (GBS) course will be held entirely online… Read More
Published: Feb. 18, 2025
Our last service in our WebOrder system, Sanger Sequencing, will be moving to RELMS in March 3rd. All Sanger orders during the last week of February must be submitted on our old web order no later than Wed, Feb 26th by 9:30am. Results will still be available to download until Feb 28 at 8am. Web… Read More
Published: Feb. 14, 2025
The BUG seminar series is Wednesday March 5th, 2025 at 1-2 pm
“The Genome of the Extraordinary Genus Petalidium, an Aridity Extremophile Endemic to the Hyper-Arid Regions of Namibia. "
- Robert M. Alba PhD, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society
Please join… Read More
Published: Feb. 14, 2025
The BUG seminar series is Wednesday February 19th, 2024 at 1-2 pm
“The use of high performance computing in the processing and management of large plankton imaging datasets”
- Elena Conser PhD and Marco Corrales Ugalde PhD, Plankton Ecology Laboratory at Hatfield Marine Science… Read More
Published: Feb. 14, 2025
The BUG seminar series is Wednesday February 5th, 2024 at 1-2 pm
“The new CQLS HPC infrastructure: Your questions answered!"
- Biocomputing and bioinformatics staff (CQLS)
Please join us in-person in ALS 3005 or on Zoom
Published: Jan. 14, 2025
Jan 2025 Collect sensitive data for research such as personal health/identifying information.
REDCap, Research Electronic Data Capture
January 16th 1:00 to 2:30pm on Zoom
60 MINUTES OF CONTENT. 30 MINUTES OF OPTIONAL Q/A.
Learn how to:
-Create projects with an xml file
-… Read More
Published: Dec. 13, 2024
The CQLS is pleased to announce several training opportunities for the Winter 2025 term, including Python I / Python II and Environmental Sequence Analysis.
More information on our workshop page
Please note, that these will be offered… Read More
Published: Dec. 5, 2024
Please note that CQLS Genomics Core Lab will be closed from December 23rd through January 1st. All samples dropped off after December 20th will remain in the drop-off freezer until after the holidays.
Published: Nov. 15, 2024
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
OSU Bioinformatics Lunch & Learn
Time: 12:00-02:00PM
Date: Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Location: 2750 SW Campus Way, Corvallis OR , ALS 3005
12:00pm Nanopore Introduction & Updates: Plant and RNA sequencing, Jeannie Mounger, PhD
1:00pm Bioinformatics… Read More
Published: Nov. 1, 2024
The last Fall session of the BUG seminar series is Wednesday December 4th, 2024 at 12-1 pm.
"HP's D100: A Single-Cell Dispenser for Multi-Omics Profiling"
- Antoine Abou Jaoude (HP Inc)
Please join us in-person in ALS 3005 or on Zoom
Published: Oct. 31, 2024
The fourth session of the BUG seminar series starts this Wednesday November 13th, 2024 at 12-1 pm.
"The Streamwater Microbiome as Hydrologic Observation: Leveraging Community Dynamics to Advance Hydrologic Process Understanding"
- Dawn URycki (NOAA)
Please join us in-person in… Read More
Published: Oct. 21, 2024
Join us for a seminar at OSU, where we'll introduce Nanopore Sequencing, explore how the technology works, review wet lab options, and provide a summary of bioinformatics workflows. We'd love to have you join this event to learn about Oxford Nanopore and provide an opportunity answer any questions… Read More
Published: Oct. 18, 2024
CQLS multi-user equipment
(Link is external) in ALS 2156 has moved to ALS 3139
The new space will be open during the CQLS Core Lab 8:30am - 5pm.
After hours Instrument room access can be requested for some usage.
Training
(Link sends email) is required for instruments and access to… Read More