Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) delivers a premier experience where heads of labs, institutions, businesses, financial analysts and other high-level stakeholders come together to advance the field and drive game-changing innovation.

Advances in Genome Biology and Technology 2025

The Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG) is designed to provide a forum on recent developments and future plans for plant and animal genome projects worldwide.

Plant and Animal Genome Conference

Learn new ways to use AnVIL and ask questions!

AnVIL Demos

We are pleased to announce the sixth meeting on Biological Data Science.

CSHL Biological Data Science Meeting 2024

AnVIL Community Conference 2024

Join us in Denver, Colorado, from November 5-9! Over the course of 5 days, the meeting will cover a broad spectrum of topics including new technologies, applications, and research to showcase the most compelling genetics and genomics science of the year.

American Society of Human Genetics

AnVIL Demos: QC Analysis Pipeline from CCDG on AnVIL

AnVIL NHGRI Intramural 2024 Workshop

AnVIL Demos: Single Cell with Bioconductor

Introduction to AnVIL at Fred Hutch 2024 Workshop

AnVIL NHGRI Research Training and Career Development Annual Meeting 2024 Workshop

Advances in Genome Biology and Technology 2024

AnVIL Demos: Collecting and subsetting SRA data

The AnVIL team will attend the CSHL Genome Informatics meeting to share about the AnVIL platform with the genomics community. This meeting will draw together researchers focused on genomic data science research, for which AnVIL can be a useful platform to leverage and can offer solutions to some common challenges in the field.

CSHL Genome Informatics 2023

AnVIL Demos: Machine Learning with Bioconductor

The AnVIL team will be attending the ASHG 2023 Conference to share with the broader genetics and genomics community about the AnVIL platform, scientific accomplishments it has enabled, and common genomics research challenges for which AnVIL offers solutions.

American Society of Human Genetics 2023

AnVIL Demos: DUOS - A tour of the AnVIL's innovative data sharing platform, and how it can help your research

The world's largest Genomics and Biodata event

Festival of Genomics and Biodata 2023

AnVIL Demos: Epigenetics in AnVIL

Stephen Mosher, Elena Ghanaim, Ava Hoffman, Anton Kovalsky and Fred Tan will discuss the new data management and sharing (DMS) policy released by the National Institutes of Health. In this workshop, attendees will learn about key data-sharing practices and take a journey through the Terra and AnVIL ecosystem to explore the features that meet NIH’s desirable characteristics.

Satisfying NIH data management and sharing (DMS) requirements with AnVIL

AnVIL Demos: Running Galaxy in AnVIL

AnVIL Demos: Interactive Genomic Data Science with Bioconductor

The annual gathering of the Galaxy Community with opportunities to hear latest developments, get training, and meet everyone involved.

Galaxy Community Conference 2023

AnVIL Demos: How to use data across multiple AnVIL workspaces

AnVIL Demos: WARP Pipelines in AnVIL/Terra

The 2023 meeting will address DNA sequence variation and its role in molecular evolution, population genetics and complex diseases, comparative genomics, large-scale studies of gene and protein expression, and genomic approaches to ecological systems.

CSHL Biology of Genomes 2023

AnVIL Demos: Using the Human Pangenome on AnVIL

Tools for Applied Data Science Using Cloud-Based Platforms

AnVIL at Virtual Applied Data Science Institute 2023

AnVIL Demos: Introduction to AnVIL

Attend AMIA 2023 Informatics Summit to experience content dedicated to translational bioinformatics, precision medicine, clinical research informatics, data science and artificial intelligence (AI) in one integrated conference.

American Medical Informatics Association Informatics Summit 2023

AnVIL Office Hours - February 23, 2023

Advances in Genome Biology and Technology 2023

Helping users find solutions to their AnVIL questions.

AnVIL Office Hours - January 2023

AnVIL Office Hours - November 2022

The scope of this meeting will be the infrastructure, software, and algorithms needed to analyze large data sets in biological research.

Biological Data Science 2022

The ASHG 2022 Annual Meeting provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge science in all areas of human genetics.

AnVIL Office Hours - October 2022

For the month of October, Terra team is offering introductory Terra sessions for those who want to learn more about how to use Terra.

Introduction to Terra

Join us to learn more about the Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) workspace on Terra. This workspace contains multiple Jupyter Notebooks that show you how to perform survival analysis using the ML4H framework, do image annotation, and review and interpret model predictions.

Machine Learning for Health

Join us next month for an introduction to writing a basic WDL workflow, uploading it to Terra, and running it in a Terra workspace.

WDL 101

AnVIL Office Hours - September 2022

AnVIL Office Hours - August 2022

AnVIL Office Hours - July 2022

The 2022 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2022) brings together hundreds of researchers, trainers, tool developers, software engineers, and computational infrastructure providers, all addressing common challenges in data intensive science using the Galaxy data integration and analysis platform.

2022 Galaxy Community Conference

Enabling interoperability for NIH cloud platforms.

NIH Cloud Platform Interoperability (NCPI) Spring 2022 Virtual Workshop

AnVIL Office Hours - June 2022

Advances in Genome Biology and Technology

AnVIL Office Hours - May 2022

The BoG 2022 meeting will address DNA sequence variation and its role in molecular evolution, population genetics and complex diseases, comparative genomics, large-scale studies of gene and protein expression, and genomic approaches to ecological systems.

The Biology of Genomes

AnVIL Office Hours - April 2022

AnVIL Office Hours - February 2022

This workshop will explore and demonstrate open access data from the Human Pangenome Research Consortium (HPRC), an NHGRI funded effort to create a more diverse and comprehensive reference human pangenome.

Reproducible Analysis of Human Pangenome Data using the AnVIL

In this workshop, we will guide you through an end-to-end SV identification journey using Galaxy, a platform designed to facilitate access to computational methods for researchers without a programming background.

Structural variant discovery from long-read sequencing data on the cloud with Galaxy in Terra

AnVIL Office Hours - December 2021

AnVIL Office Hours - November 2021

The 2021 Genome Informatics Meeting will cover topics including Microbial and Metagenomics; Sequencing Algorithms, Variant Discovery and Genome Assembly; Evolution, Complex Traits and Phylogenetics; Functional Genomics; Single Cell Genomics; and Epigenetics and Genome Structure.

Modeling the computing requirements and costs for genomics analysis in the cloud

A Bioconductor popup workshop providing a one-hour virtual session to highlight specific parts of the Terra / AnVIL ecosystem for R and Bioconductor users.

Participant Stories

Managing Costs with AnVILBilling

Reproducible Research with AnVILPublish

Using AnVIL for Teaching R / Bioconductor

Single-cell RNASeq with 'Orchestrating Single Cell Analysis' in R / Bioconductor

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is pleased to announce the 33rd Cold Spring Harbor meeting on The Biology of Genomes.

The Biology of Genomes - 2021

Running a Workflow: Bulk RNASeq Differential Expression from FASTQ Files to Top Table

The R / Bioconductor AnVIL Package for Easy Access to Buckets, Data, and Workflows, and Fast Package Installation

Using R / Bioconductor in AnVIL

The AnVIL team will present an overview of the AnVIL platform in Module 7 of VADSTI 2021.

We will guide you through a research journey with the NHGRI Genomic Data Science Analysis, Visualization and Informatics Lab-space (AnVIL).

Find and Analyze Data in the Cloud with Gen3, Dockstore and Terra

Attendees will use AnVIL to launch Galaxy and create, modify, and execute a Galaxy Workflow for GWAS analysis to demonstrate batch processing in Galaxy.

GWAS Analysis with Galaxy in AnVIL

This session introduces R / Bioconductor in the AnVIL cloud computing environment. We cover use of the cloud as a replacement to desktop-style computing.

R / Bioconductor in the Cloud - East Session

This training will lead users through the steps of performing reproducible genomic analysis at scale in the cloud with Dockstore and Terra.

Reproducible Analysis in the Cloud with Dockstore and Terra

A hands-on workshop to train a beginner on the fundamental technologies used to create portable and reproducible workflows.

Dockstore Fundamentals: Introduction to Docker and Descriptors for Reproducible Analysis - East Session

Dockstore Fundamentals: Introduction to Docker and Descriptors for Reproducible Analysis - West Session

R / Bioconductor in the Cloud - West Session

This full-day workshop will guide you through a research journey that highlights the capabilities and components of the NHGRI Genomic Data Science Analysis, Visualization and Informatics Lab-space (AnVIL) resource.

Finding and Analyzing Data in the Cloud with Gen3, Dockstore, Terra, and Galaxy

An introduction to the AnVIL platform to enable CCDG and CMG researchers to analyze GSP data using AnVIL tools.

Massive Genome Informatics in the Cloud (MaGIC) Jamboree

Workshop attendees will be introduced to practical examples of how genomic data is used in research and clinical applications, highlighting techniques, technologies, and platforms used in genomic analysis.

SACNAS 2019 - The National Diversity in STEM Conference

Genomic data science with the Galaxy workbench

This workshop provides an introduction to Hail through hands-on exploration and analysis of public 1000 Genomes data.

An Introduction to Scalable Genomic Analysis with Hail

This poster session brings Kids First researchers together with a growing community of potential collaborators to foster collaboration and accelerate genetic discovery of childhood cancer and structural birth defects.

Gabriella Miller Kids First Poster Session: Accelerating Pediatric Genomics Research through Collaboration

Hands-on workshop introducing best practice approaches for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) using the Galaxy computational workbench.

Reproducible and Transparent Genomic Analysis with Galaxy

This hands-on workshop will introduce genomic data science through guided exercises using the Galaxy workbench.

AnVIL Community Events

AnVIL 2024 - AnVIL Demos

PAG 32 - Plant and Animal Genome Conference

AGBT 2025 - Advances in Genome Biology and Technology 2025