Automation offers big solution to big data in astronomy
Monthly archives for April, 2015
Whole genome alignment
Whole genome alignment is crucial to a large number of important applications in genomics, and is particularly important to our work on convergent evolution in birds. The current state of the art software for whole genome alignment is progressiveCactus, developed by the same group that built the UCSC genome browser. Getting this software to work […]
Training and debugging
We are very appreciative of the help offered by CHPC staff and facilities. Specifically, we receive a lot of help with respect to the software training, program debugging, and computational resources. Because of the help we have received, we are more familiar with how to perform calculations and get useful information using CHPC computational packages […]