Bioinformatics Computing Laboratory (BCL)

 

Software and Tutorials Installed in BCL Network
General Purposes
  Adobe Reader
  Firefox
  Google Chrome
  Microsoft Office
  SSH Secure Shell
  Strawberry Perl
  TIBCO Spotfire
  Mathematics and Statistics
  GeoGebra
  MATLAB
  Mathematica
  Minitab
  R
 

SAS
 

Texmaker

 
Bioinformatics
  Bioinformatics Grid Linux Software Set*
  BLAST
  MeV
  Online Tutorials
 

BioConductor marray Package Tutorial

  R-Tutorial
  UNIX Tutorial
Bioinformatics Computer Resources
Computers
Location OS       Quantity
BCL CentOS Linux           8

BCL

 Windows           2
SBL* CentOS Linux         15

TBL*

 Windows        

12
 
*These Linux workstations in Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory (SBL) are part of the Bioinformatics Grid running HT Condor for High-Throughput Distributed Computing, networked with windows machines in Translational Bioinformatics Laboratory (TBL) equipped with Cisco Jabber Video system for teleconferencing.
 

Printers and Scanners
Location LaserJet Quantity
BCL HP LaserJet 4300   1
SBL HP Color LaserJet 3550  

1

TBL

 Brothers Color Laser/Scanner  

1
 

For more details about using the network and labs, please download

Bioinformatics Computing Laboratory Information and Rules (PDF)

Other Accessible Computing Resources
  CyberShARE Center
  High Performance Computing Research Cloud @ UTEP
  Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC Stampede) at Austin

 

Acknowledgements

BCL is supported in part by the following grants:

National Institutes of Health (NIH): 2U54MD007592, S06GM08012-35, and 3T34GM008048-20S1

 

National Science Foundation (NSF): DMS#800272

    

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program (NHARP): 003661-0008-2006 and 003661-0013-2007

 

We also thank the support for the consulting faculty by the departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mathematical Sciences.