2025
Posit Resources for NCI Users: Workbench on FRCE and Application Hosting
FRCE and Computational ScienceTue, Mar 25 · 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Building 549, Conference Room B, NCI-Frederick
Presenter: George Zaki, Ph.D., Director, Applied Scientific Computing, Biomedical and Computational Science Directorate Several new Posit resources are available to NCI users at no cost, including Posit Workbench and Posit Connect for hosting users’ RShiny and Python scientific applications...
Bigger, Faster, Better: Using the FRCE Cluster to Establish a Cryo-EM Data Processing Workflow
FRCE and Computational ScienceTue, 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 ScienceTue, 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 ScienceTue, 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 ScienceTue, 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 ScienceTue, 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 ScienceTue, 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 ScienceTue, 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 ScienceTue, 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 ScienceTue, 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 ScienceTue, 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 ScienceTue, 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...