Science Gateways Community Institute presentation at ADMI 2019

1. Award Number
ACI-1547611https://sciencegateways.org
Marlon Pierce
Indiana University &
Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI)
The Science Gateways Community Institute:
Supporting Online Science and Education

2. • NSF-funded project to support the science gateways community.
• SGCI members
• San Diego Supercomputing Center (Nancy Wilkins-Diehr)
• Elizabeth City State University (Linda Hayden)
• Texas Advanced Computing Center (Maytal Dahan)
• University of Michigan (Katherine Lawrence)
• Purdue University (Michael Zentner)
• Indiana University (Marlon Pierce)
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What Is the Science Gateways
Community Institute?

3. What is a science
gateway?
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4. • An online community space for science and engineering research
and education
• A Web-based resource for accessing data, software, computing
services, and scientific instruments
• A way to help researchers,
educators, students, and the public
gain access to sophisticated or
limited resources
What is a gateway?
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5. dREG: discriminative Regulatory Element
detection from GRO-seq
• Prof. Charles Danko and Dr. Zhong Wang,
Cornell
• dREG: Identification of the genomic regions
that regulate transcription
• Genetic basis of many diseases
Problem: What’s the best way to deliver the code?
• You want other people to use it
• It’s actively developed
• It really needs a large GPU cluster to run well.

6. dREG: Software as a Service
Instead of requiring users to download and
install the code, deliver it through a gateway.
And
integrate
third party
Web tools

7. CIPRES: Cyberinfrastructure for Phylogenetic
Research
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https://www.phylo.org/portal2
Armand Bilge, 10th grader at Lexington High School,
next to a poster explaining his award-winning research
project, a map and timeline that identified when HIV arrived in
the Americas.
• 1.36 million jobs on TeraGrid/XSEDE
submitted by 33,195 unique users.
• Used for curriculum delivery by at
least 93 instructors.
• Supported 4,500+ publications.

8. Geo-Gateway.org
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9. QUBES:
Quantitative Biology Education Resources
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10. Citizen Science: Zooniverse
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https://www.zooniverse.org/

11. Diverse Qualities
Users
• Researchers
• Educators
• Students
• Policy makers
• Citizen scientists
Functions
• Data collection from
sensors or instruments
• Community resource
sharing
• Analysis or computation
• Data sharing
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Development Stage
• Nascent idea
• Startup
• Operational
• Mature

12. Gateways Are
Like Startups
• Most of these gateways were
built by small university teams
• Someone has an idea and
wants to provide a service to a
research and education
community.
• Many fail but a few thrive.
• Thriving gateways still need
help
• Scale up
• Sustain
• Evolve
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13. SGCI Provides Services and Resources
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Education &
Training
Support for
Building & Running
Gateways
Opportunities for
Networking &
Community

14. Support for
Building & Running Gateways
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Gateway Catalog with
Projects and Software Components
Consulting
Services
Hosting Services

15. Bootcamp
Education & Training:
Face-to-Face
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Student Programs
Conference & Tutorials

16. Online
Resources
Education &
Training:
Online
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Webinars

17. • 56 gateways supported with direct consulting services
• 1453 participants in 42 educational and training programs &
events
• $38.8M in grants awarded with a Letter of Commitment from
SGCI (41% success rate)
• 378 gateways and 71 software components listed in our
Catalog
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Funded in August 2016:
In just over 2.5 years…

18. • Consulting expertise & direct support
• Support and networking opportunities for building campus-based development
capacity
• Gateway Catalog can help you find (or promote) projects hosted on
your campus (https://catalog.sciencegateways.org)
• Education & training: Bootcamp, conference, webinars, online content
• Community resources: Forum, job postings (post your own), news &
events
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Ways that SGCI might be helpful for you

19. Student-Focused Programs
https://sciencegateways.org/engage/student-focused
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20. Attend the
Student
Coding
Institute
• Participate in our student-focused coding institute at
ECSU June 3-28
• Apply by April 26th
• Learn core skills needed to develop science gateways.
• All participants will attend either the PEARC19 or
the Gateways 2019 conference.
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21. Participate in the
Intern Program
• Eight-week internship in Summer
2019
• Application deadline is April 26,
2019.
• Students work with real gateway
projects, mentors
• Software and Web development
• Security analysis
• Usability, user experience
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22. Participate in
Gateways 2019
• Submit a paper or poster to
Gateways 2019
• https://sciencegateways.org/we
b/gateways2019
• Attend Gateways 2019 in San
Diego
• Co-Located with E-Science 2019
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23. A Deeper Dive
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Learn about science gateways
and science gateway software
at the with the Science
Gateways Catalog.
• Find a gateway to use
• Find software to explore
https://catalog.sciencegateways.org

25. Science Gateway
Software in the
Classroom
• Science gateway software
systems are examples of
distributed systems, cloud-
native technologies
• See
https://courses.airavata.or
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• Many gateway software
systems are open source
• Teach open source
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26. • Scientific software as a service
• Scientific data access and exploration
• Scientific collaborations
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Run Your Own Science Gateway
Many science gateway providers offer hosting and
set-up support. SGCI can help.

27. • Marlon Pierce: marpierc@iu.edu
• Sign up for our newsletter:
https://sciencegateways.org/community/newsletter
• Email a question: help@sciencegateways.org
• Join our Google group:
• Social media
• Follow @sciencegateways on Twitter
• http://sciencegateways.org/linkedin
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sciencegateways.org