An Introduction to The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Shared Platform for Antibiotic Research and Knowledge (SPARK)
Tuesday, October 23 at 16:00 GMT, 12:00 PM Eastern, 9:00 AM Pacific
Pew has officially launched its Shared Platform for Antibiotic Research and Knowledge (SPARK) – a cloud-based, virtual laboratory that enables scientists to share data and insights, learn from past research, and generate new insights into how molecules enter and stay inside of Gram-negative bacteria.
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To maximize the value of this webinar, we recommend having a SPARK log-in. If you don’t already have one, you can request access using this simple online form.
Join us on Tuesday, October 23, for an introduction to SPARK, including opportunities to ask questions and to review the live data available in SPARK.
What will be covered during this 90-minute webinar?
- LOGGING IN to SPARK
- EXPLORING DATA
- Review an example data report
- Types of data available in SPARK
- Review Project organization
- Performing queries
- DEFINE COMPOUNDS
- Review Compound Overview tabs
- DEFINE ASSAYS
- Show “pMIC Data” Assay details
- REVIEW USER SETTINGS
- Setting user-level Assay defaults
- VISUAL ANALYSIS
- ACTIVITY MODELS
- Review bayesian activity models
- Process for creating a model
- ENVELOPE TAB
- How to use SPARK Message board
Additional Information About SPARK
ACS Viewpoint article about SPARK, authored by Joe Thomas, Marc Navre, Aileen Rubio and Allan Coukell: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsinfecdis.8b00193
Resource on Pew Website
- SPARK Q&A: Answers to common questions about Pew’s publicly available database intended to help scientists build on previous research, generate new insights
- The Data Driving SPARK: Details on the scope and sources of information in Pew’s interactive antibiotic discovery tool
- Meet the SPARK Discovery Experts
- Blog by Pew’s Kathy Talkington and LifeArc’s Andy Merritt -- Collaborative Efforts Will Drive Antibiotic Discovery: 2 initiatives tackle different aspects of the war against drug-resistant superbugs
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