Success Stories

Teaching using the CGC - Georgetown University

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.”

Teaching using the CGC - Purdue University

We partnered with Min Zhang at Purdue University to deliver a four-part series on RNAseq as part of their STAT-581 course. Each class consisted of a lecture on an RNAseq topic and hands-on training on implementing an analysis on the CGC. We used data in the Sequence Read Archive, providing a real world example for the students to follow. All students were able to accomplish the training in each class.

All lectures were recorded and are freely available on the Purdue Website, as linked below.