As much as we can help, we recognize that for most topics, members of the broad CQLS community are the "experts in the field," and more often than not we know who those experts are! We will be sure to connect you with the lab or person that has previously cleared the path for the analysis or data you are facing. One way we connect people is through the Bioinformatics Users' Group (BUG), which meets for an hour, every two weeks.
BUG consists of life scientists, bioinformaticians, computer scientists, mathematicians, engineers, statisticians, and researchers of all types who meet to discuss topics related to these fields of study.
- No experience necessary to participate
- Informal: discussions and interactive-talks
- Short workshops
- Bring/request your own topics of interest
Previous topics include Hidden Markov Models, SNP Calling toolkits, Metagenomics, Structured Query Language (SQL), De-novo genome assembly tools, Project management, and many more.
Want to keep yourself, or your lab, apprised of upcoming BUG presentations?
- Subscribe to the cqls-bug mailing list or contact the Bioinformatics Trainers
- Join the BUG Slack channel
- See a list of our past BUG meetings
This term the CQLS Bioinformatics User Group (BUG) and the Supercomputer Townhall will host combined user group meetings and upcoming interactive talks ( Research Computing Office (RCO) User Group @ OSU). The users group meeting consists of scientists across OSU who meet to discuss computing-related research topics. Mettings are generally informal, consisting of discussions, interactive talks, or short workshops. We meet bi-weekly on Wednesdays and no experience is necessary to participate!
Winter 2026 Schedule
12pm in ALS 3005 or Kidder 202, ZOOM link
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January 14th ALS 3005 |
“Introducing the RCO Users Group " - Ed Davis (Bioinformatics Scientist, (CQLS)), Chris Sullivan (Director of Research and Academic Computing (CEOAS)), Dirk Peterson (Director of Research Computing (UIT))
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January 28th ALS 3005 |
“Using scratch space effectively with Slurm" - Ed Davis (Bioinformatics Scientist, (CQLS))
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February 11th Kidder 202 |
"Utilizing GPUs in Genomics: Three Case Studies" - Sam Talbot (Bioinformatics Scientist, (CQLS)) HCIC and Storage Updates and Discussion - Dirk Peterson (Director of Research Computing (UIT))
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February 25th ALS 3005 |
HPC focus, title TBD - Fabian Wittmers (Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Microbiology)
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March 11th TBD |
HCIC/AI focus, title TBD - Dirk Peterson (Director of Research Computing (UIT))
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