CyVerse Austria - Computational Infrastructure and Data Management Services

1. CyVerse
Computational lnfrastructure
and
Data Management
Services
Konrad Langa, Sarah Stryecka, Manfred Stepponata, Ursula Winklerb, David Bodruzicb,
SlaveTrajanoskic, Michael Fladischerc, David Garcia de Marina Llorented, Stefanie Lindstaedta;d
aGraz University of Technology
bUniversity of Graz
cMedical University of Graz
dKNOW-CENTER GmbH Research Center for Data-Driven Business & Big Data Analytics

2. CyVerse Austria uses open source code from CyVerse US (University of Arizona)
Transforming Science through Data-Driven Discovery
CyVerse

3. BioTechMed Graz
• Cooperation and networking initiative
• University of Graz
• Medical University of Graz
• Graz University of Technology
• Conducting mutual research and bundling of existing resources
Molecular Biomedicine, Neurosciences, Pharmaceutical and Medical
Technology, Biotechnology, Quantitative Biomedicine and Modeling

4. Cyverse was developed in 2008 by the
University of Arizona (US), formerly know as
iPlant.
It receives financial backing from the National
Science Foundation. They maintain a growing
user base, currently having more than 50.000
active users from 5.626 participating academic
institutions.
CyVerse

5. Data Commons
• Pipelines for publishing data to the Data Commons Portal or to NCBI (SRA or WGS).
• Anonymous (no login required) access to public data on CyVerse through the Data
Commons Data Portal, including CyVerse Curated Data that are stable and have
been issued a permanent Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and Community Released
Data that are managed by community members and may not be stable or permanent.
• Tools and templates for using metadata in the Discovery Environment .

6. Metagenomics analysis
Assess common interactions in
microbiome from biotic and abiotic
surfaces using sequencing datasets.
QIIME
bioinformatic workflow
containerized
Mirobiome datasets from biotic surfaces
Graz University of Technology
Microbiome datasets from abiotic surfaces
Medical University of Graz
Example Use Case

7. FASTCURE
FASTCURE https://fastcure.net
Computational biology to test drugs for SARS-
CoV-2 main protease and mutant variants
thereof

8. Thank you!