SAIGE-BRUSH: an efficient, user-friendly and low cost cloud implementation for genome-wide association studies

SAIGE-Biobank Re-Usable SAIGE Helper (SAIGE-BRUSH) allows users with little computational expertise to utilize SAIGE for GWAS with parallelization and data collection on biobank data sets. This implementation requires no installation and has additional features not programmed within the original SAIGE framework, such as concurrency, reproducibility, reusability, scalability, association analysis results filtering and output plots. This is all achieved without writing any code from the user. This implementation is currently being utilized by the Biobank at the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine (CCPM) on Google Cloud but is flexible for a number of architectures available to genetic analysts. Availability: This open source implementation is freely available at https://github.com/tbrunetti/SAIGE-BRUSH and is licensed under the MIT License. Contact: Chris Gignoux at [email protected] & Nick Rafaels at [email protected] Supplemental Material: For detailed user documentation, please visit https://saige-brush.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Cloud Implementation to Assist Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages in HEI’s in Sultanate of Oman

Cloud Computing has been implemented in diverse fields and sector, including education sector with a very good success rate. The cloud deployments enhance the learning experience and provisions appropriate IT resources critical for a specific learning environment. This research study exploits a service model to deliver appropriate learning resources to foundation students and teachers that otherwise is not available with the current cloud service architectures. Language should not be a barrier to learning, teaching subjects in English to those who are not native English speakers, most of the times is a challenging job especially in circumstances where the English Language is introduced late in the school academic curriculum. There are several challenges faced by students, and teachers. Several mechanisms have been suggested and adopted to deal with such situations so that student learning experience is not affected in a significant manner, and at the same time, teachers are also not facing problems while explaining concepts or topics to students. This research paper is a study on helping teachers and students in these situations by providing cloud-based knowledge base related to TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), repositories, and apps that may help and assist teacher and students.

Cloud Implementation to Assist Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages in HEI’s in Sultanate of Oman

Cloud Computing has been implemented in diverse fields and sector, including education sector with a very good success rate. The cloud deployments enhance the learning experience and provisions appropriate IT resources critical for a specific learning environment. This research study exploits a service model to deliver appropriate learning resources to foundation students and teachers that otherwise is not available with the current cloud service architectures. Language should not be a barrier to learning, teaching subjects in English to those who are not native English speakers, most of the times is a challenging job especially in circumstances where the English Language is introduced late in the school academic curriculum. There are several challenges faced by students, and teachers. Several mechanisms have been suggested and adopted to deal with such situations so that student learning experience is not affected in a significant manner, and at the same time, teachers are also not facing problems while explaining concepts or topics to students. This research paper is a study on helping teachers and students in these situations by providing cloud-based knowledge base related to TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), repositories, and apps that may help and assist teacher and students.