Workshops:
The Collaboratory posts training opportunities for internal and external researchers in the use of the Collaboratory specifically, and more broadly for cloud computing for Big Data ‘omic data sets. Our goal is to create a virtuous cycle that will improve both the tools offered by the Collaboratory, and the research community’s ability to take advantage of these tools.

CBW Workshop:
Working with Big Cancer Data in the Collaboratory Cloud
Date: November 4, 2017
Location: Vancouver, BC
Half-day: 8:30 am - 12:30 pm
Class size: 50 people
Cost: $100+tax
To register for this workshop, participants need to register for the 2017 CCRC.
Participants will gain practical experience and skills to be able to:
Launch their own virtual machine (VM)
Configure a VM with prepackaged tools
Pull in data sets from Cloud repositories
Follow best practices in data and workflow management
Run a data analysis pipeline in the Cloud
Past Workshops:

CBW Workshop:
Bioinformatics on Big Data: Cloud computing on the Human Geneme
Date: September 29 - September 30, 2016
Location: Downtown Toronto, ON
Participants will gain practical experience and skills to be able to:
Launch their own virtual machine (VM)
Configure a VM with prepackaged tools
Pull in data sets from Cloud repositories
Follow best practices in data and workflow management
Customize a VM with theirown tools
Scale up their VM to meet their analysis needs
Lectures:
2016 OpenStack Barcelona | Date: Oct 26, 2016
Openstack and Ceph used in large scale cancer research
Presenter: George Mihaiescu from The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
The presentation will discuss PCAWG and other use cases on the Collaboratory, performance results and optimization, and lessons learnt from enabling large-scale cancer genomic research on OpenStack.