ABCS Training Events

2025

Bigger, Faster, Better: Using the FRCE Cluster to Establish a Cryo-EM Data Processing Workflow
FRCE and Computational Science

Tue, Jan 28 · 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Building 549, Conference Room C, NCI-Frederick

Presenter: Kendra Leigh, PhD, Advanced Cryo-EM Technology Group, Cancer Research Technology Program  This talk will cover how our group uses the resources of the FRCE cluster to process cryo-electron microscopy data collected in-house. This session is geared towards beginner users. This will...

2024

Quantum Chemistry: What is it and What is it Good for?
FRCE and Computational Science

Tue, Nov 26 · 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Building 549, Conference Room A, NCI-Frederick

Presenter: Joseph Ivanic, Ph.D., Advanced Biomedical Computational Science  This talk will introduce quantum chemistry and how it is useful for the modeling of therapeutic and diagnostic agents. This session is geared towards beginners.  This will be a hybrid event. To register, please...

Notable RNA Structure Prediction Tools on FRCE and Beyond
FRCE and Computational Science

Tue, Oct 22 · 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Building 549, Executive Board Room, NCI-Frederick

Presenter: Wojciech (Voytek) Kasprzak, Advanced Biomedical Computational Science  Popular structure prediction program AlphaFold3 and its competitor Chai-1 recently added capabilities to predict 3D RNA structures straight from sequence input. In this talk, we will discuss some test cases for...

Cloud or HPC? Scaling bioinformatics pipeline using cloud and HPC resources using enterprise data science platforms.
FRCE and Computational Science

Tue, Jul 23 · 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Building 549, Executive Board Room, NCI-Frederick

Presenter: George Zaki, Ph.D., Director, Applied Scientific Computing, Biomedical and Computational Science Directorate  In this presentation, we will demonstrate how to use enterprise data science platform to configure, run, share, and scale downstream bioinformatics and image analysis pipel...

Whole Slide Pathological Image (WSI) Analysis using FRCE
FRCE and Computational Science

Tue, May 28 · 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Building 549, Executive Board Room, NCI-Frederick

Presenter: Dorsa Ziaei, Ph.D., Computational Scientist II, Imaging and Visualization Group (IVG), Advanced Biomedical Computational Science (ABCS)  In this session, we will explore how machine learning can be used to analyze Whole Slide pathological Images (WSIs). We will showcase how to util...

Practical use case of FRCE cluster utilities: Exploring the metagenome of 794 lichen holobionts
FRCE and Computational Science

Tue, Apr 23 · 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Building 549, Conference Room B, NCI-Frederick

Presenter: Dr. Sam Waterworth, Molecular Targets Program, NCI. Crunching of large data requires large resources. Exploration of holobiont metagenomes is considered a “big data” project and here I’ll be describing how I used the FRCE cluster to explore 794 metagenomes simultaneously to assess the b...

Maximizing Computational Power: Unleashing the Potential of FRCE GPUs for Advanced AI Research, NLP, and Large Language Models
FRCE and Computational Science

Tue, Mar 26 · 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Building 549, Executive Board Room, NCI-Frederick

Presenter: Mohammad Alodadi, PhD, Computational Scientist. Bioinformatics and Computational Science (BACS) Directorate, Advanced Biomedical Computational Science (ABCS). In this session, we will discuss the potential of GPUs, and when and why to use GPUs on the Frederick Research Computing Environ...

Using Containers in Bioinformatics Analyses
FRCE and Computational Science

Tue, Feb 27 · 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Building 549, Executive Board Room, NCI-Frederick

Presenter: Vishal Koparde, PhD, Bioinformatics Technical Lead at Collaborative CCR Bioinformatics Resource, NCI  This session will cover what are containers, and why and how to use them in your Bioinformatics workflows. We will review best practices, basic commands, and useful resources. This...

2023

Protein Structure Prediction on FRCE
FRCE and Computational Science

Tue, Nov 28 · 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Building 549, Conference Room B, NCI-Frederick

Presenter: David R. Bell, Advanced Biomedical Computational Science  Recent advances in protein structure prediction methods such as AlphaFold2 and ESMFold has enabled protein structure prediction to achieve experimental accuracy in certain cases. In this talk, we will discuss the advantages...

Introduction to Next-Generation Sequencing Analysis on FRCE
FRCE and Computational Science

Tue, Oct 24 · 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Building 549, Executive Board Room, NCI-Frederick

Presenters: Shaojun Xie, PhD, Sulbha Choudhari, PhD, and Ying Wu, PhD, Sequencing Facility Bioinformatics Group, Advanced Biomedical and Computational Science, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research.  In this session, we will provide the overview of the Next-Generation Sequencing (...

Frederick Research Computing Environment (FRCE): A "Quick-Start" Guide to the SLURM Cluster Environment
FRCE and Computational Science

Tue, Aug 22 · 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Building 549, Executive Board Room, NCI-Frederick

Video recording password: FRCE_Aug2023 Presenters:  Natasha Pacheco, PhD, Advanced Biomedical Computational Science (ABCS), Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, and Samuel Walters-Nevet, Statistical Consulting and Scientific Programming Services, Frederick National Laboratory...