CGC as a Teaching and Training platform

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has made several foundational investments in funding basic and translational research which generates massive amounts of data as well as data analysis ecosystems or platforms to empower the scientific community to analyze these large datasets. Over the years, the Seven Bridges Cancer Genomics Cloud platform has not only enabled researchers to perform collaborative research, but it has been used as an effective teaching platform for training the next generation of national research workforce. Several universities and research institutes are effectively utilizing the CGC for their teaching and training programs.

Recently, we interviewed our long term collaborators Dr. Yuriy Gusev and Ms. Krithika Bhuvaneshwar from Georgetown University who have been using the CGC platform for the past 3 years to train the next generation of data scientists in their Masters in Health Informatics and Data Science Program. Here are a few excerpts from their interview:

Dr. Gusev says “To make it easier for students, we decided to use Seven Bridges’ collection of tools, because they are presented in a very user-friendly, graphical interface where students have this low barrier to understand and start using the pipelines which otherwise would require a lot of additional training.”

Ms. Bhuvaneshwar says “I think the Seven Bridges has a nice framework for teaching, because the way we set up the infrastructure is: we have one project which we create for each of our students, and then we copy the pipeline and we teach them how to copy the data as well.”

Click above to view the recording, or click the button on the right to read the full transcript of the user interview with Dr. Gusev and Ms. Bhuvaneshwar.