BRC Analytics

Analytics for pathogen, host, and vector data

Comprehensive tools for exploring and interpreting genomic annotations and functional insights into disease-causing organisms and their carriers

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October 30th Q&A webinar video available

Video is now available for the BRC Analytics webinar that took place on Oct 30 where we introduced workflows and Galaxy integration.

Also, mentioned in the webinar is a survey which will help us direct early development efforts and provide direction for the next webinar.

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BRC Q&A webinar video available

On Friday, October 4, we hosted a video webinar Q&A about BRC Analytics where we discussed the future of the project and encouraged interested people to get involved in planning for next steps. A video of that webinar (w/auto-generated captions) is available on YouTube.

Share your usage and join our advisory panel

BRC Analytics is actively evolving to provide comprehensive data access and analytical tools for all 785 eukaryotic pathogens, host taxa, and vectors previously supported by VEuPathDB. We need your help to improve—share your usage patterns and join our design advisory panel to help shape the future of the platform.

BRC Analytics is your new destination for analysis of biological data related to pathogens. Building on the foundation of VEuPathDb the platform will provide access and analysis capabilities for 785 eukaryotic pathogens, hosts, and vectors. The functionality will be developed and made available incrementally over the following months.

What is BRC Analytics?

BRC Analytics consists of three components spread over four resources: public computational infrastructure (TACC), authoritative data repositories and browsers (NCBI and UCSC) and an analytical platform (Galaxy).

Galaxy
GalaxyA platform for the analysis of data at any scale using public infrastructure
NCBI Datasets
NCBI DatasetsA singular source for standardized genomic and functional data
UCSC Genome Browser
UCSC Genome BrowserA global platform for visualization and interpretation of genomic data
TACC
TACCOne of the world’s leading academic computing centers

Your questions, answered

If you need further assistance, feel free to reach out to us at help@brc-analytics.org, or join discussions on the Discourse forum. We're here to help!

BRC Analytics is very new. Out plan is (1) establish access to official versions of VEuPathDB’s 785 genomes; (2) develop analytical workflows for common analyses such as transcriptomics, variation, assembly, and tightly integrate them with the data; (3) ingest and provide access to custom annotations that were previously available from VEuPathDB. To learn more click “Roadmap” on top.

I used to be able to access many types of data including genomes and associated annotations. Where do I find it now? Data for the majority of VEuPathDB organisms is available by clicking the “Datasets” link at the top.

I used to rely on VEuPathDB to perform my analyses. Now that it is no longer available, what can I do? Many types of analyses are possible via integration with the Galaxy system while we continue to build this new BRC resource.

BRC Analytics will provide access to genomic data and an analytical environment. The data will be based on the official releases provided by NCBI Datasets and deployed through the UCSC Genome Browser. The analytics will be provided by the Galaxy system supported by powerful computational infrastructure provided by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and ACCESS-CI consortium.