Workshop: Learn the Best Way to Find Data in NIH’s Sequence Read Archive (SRA) On the Cloud

I have a Ph.D. in Zoology from NCSU and an M.S. in Biotechnology/Bioinformatics from Johns Hopkins where I honed my skills analyzing "big data” at the molecular, organismal and ecological scale. As a bioinformatician, strategic consultant and now at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, I have assisted dozens of university and government researchers to analyze cancer, crop science, bacteria, virus and plant genomes, transcriptomes and disease variant data sets. I specialize in helping researchers develop pipelines for data-driven discovery on HPC and commercial cloud computing resources (AWS and GCP) and provide consultation on ML and AI projects in the cloud.

Adam has worked as a curator with the SRA for over 10 years. In that time he has helped submitters understand and complete the submission process, worked with sequencing centers to establish automated data submission pipelines, served on working groups for large NIH sequencing projects, and helped with the recent submission interface redesign. Adam also helped design the process of submitting metadata and accessing files in cloud storage and has taught workshops on searching for and using high throughput sequencing data on commercial cloud platforms.