CI-TEAM Demonstration Project: Cyberinfrastructure Education for Bioinformatics and Beyond

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This project will develop and deploy educational modules on a specificform of CyberInfrastructure (CI), statewide across an EPSCoR state(Oklahoma), regionally among several EPSCoR and non-EPSCoR states, andnationally, targeted initially at scalable bioinformatics education andresearch efforts, but also accessible and applicable to education andresearch across all science and engineering disciplines. By leveragingexisting CI and bioinformatics software technologies (Condor andBLAST), as well as PCs that are already in service for desktop use,this CI-TEAM project will: enable CI education and research; traintechnicians in CI deployment, configuration and management; enablebioinformatics education and research by providing BLAST over Condor;enable education and research across the full spectrum of science andengineering. This project will use BLAST as a kickstart application, toengage the interest of potential additional collaborators. In addition,this project will support a large number of projects unrelated toBLAST, including microarray data analysis, statistical inference,phylogenetics, computational evolution, genomic and proteomic bioarrayanalysis, genetic algorithms, brain region modeling, high performancenetworking, high energy physics, cyberinfrastructure development anddeployment, nanotechnology, heat transport, flood forecasting, weatherradar data mining and analysis, robot learning, scientific datarepresentation, distributed scheduling, unfolding neutron spectra,gravity simulation, laser tweezer manipulation. This project will advance discovery and understanding in Grid computing, bioinformatics and a wide variety of other disciplines. It will broaden participation by including participants from minority serving, high school, 2-year, 4-year, Masters-granting and PhD-granting institutions, most of them in EPSCoR states. The Condor pool will enhance infrastructure by providing resources to dozens of scientists at the participating institutions. Dissemination will include the University of Oklahoma's annual Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium, which attracts hundreds of academic, government and industry representatives from over a dozen states; the project team will also give talks at other conferences and will establish a website. Education will be enhanced not only by the Condor and BLAST education modules, but also because several of the research projects that will use the Condor flock have substantial education components, and some are entirely focused on education.