GIDAS Biotechnology camp’s high school students learning about microRNA targeted predictions using Flux, with support from MICDE and U-M’s Scientific Computing Student Club members.
From Aug. 8-12, 2016, MICDE and ARC-TS donated a Flux allocation and computational support to miRcore and its GIDAS’ Biotechnology Camp for high school students. All the students were able to log in the cluster, and use the command line to run RNAhybrid, a tool for finding the minimum free energy hybridization of a long and a short RNA. The students learned about microRNA target predictions that complemented the camp’s wet lab experiments. Scientific Computing Student Club members Joe Paki and Blair Winograd provided support to the students.
MICDE is partnered with miRcore, a non-profit organization whose mission is to democratize medical research by building funds for microgrants to support innovative genetic research.