AnVIL in the Classroom: Cloud-scale educational resources for modern genomics

The migration of biomedical data and computational tools to the cloud is opening new opportunities for research-grade resources to be accessible by a wide range of audiences, including students, regardless of their institute’s computational infrastructure. Educators can now in principle leverage these exciting cloud data and tools to make basic genomics concepts and applications more tangible to students. 

In practice, using cloud-based resources for teaching purposes requires a basic understanding of how the cloud products and platforms work together, and how to make effective use of relevant resources depending on your teaching objectives.

This webinar presentation aims to support educators by demonstrating how an instructor could use AnVIL resources, specifically Jupyter Notebooks in Terra workspaces, to develop and administer practical instruction in genomics to a class of students.