Date: Nov 8, 2011.

Topic: RNASeq data processing pipeline developed in the Brutnell lab

Presenter: Lin Wang

Slides: [not yet]

Date: Nov 1, 2011.
Topic: MySQL database performance tuning.
Presenter: Clayton Birkett, USDA

Clay discussed several ways to increase database performance, including effects of data denormalization, use of different storage engines, distributed databases (incl. memcached), and use of solid state drives.

Slides

Date: October 18, 2011.
Topic: Git repositories and GitHub (http://github.com/). Infrastructure for open source projects.
Presenter: Lukas Mueller
Slides: none

Bioconductor Nextgen sequence library

Date: Oct 4, 2011.
Topic: Next Gen sequencing data processing using R and bioconductor
Presenter: Shan Gao (Fei lab, BTI)
Slides:

Bioconductor has a newer library called flowCore with code handling next generation sequencing data:
http://bioconductor.org/help/workflows/high-throughput-assays/

Sample code shown in the presentation (and some sample files) will be available soon.

Nice manual:
http://manuals.bioinformatics.ucr.edu/home/ht-seq