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Identification of novel genetic variants in individuals with Bipolar Disorder

Aug 1, 2012

UCT's Computational Biology group has been using the ICTS HPC cluster to investigate Bipolar Disorder predisposition. Below Gerrit Botha gives a summary of the methods used.

Bipolar Disorder (BPD) is a severe psychiatric illness, characterised by extremes in mood whereby

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Post maintenance

Jul 23, 2012

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The cluster is back up again after the electrical maintenance. The system looks OK but if you notice any weirdness please do contact us.…

We've installed, two powerful add-on packages for Python. BioPython is a suite of tools for biological computation and NumPy is a scientific computing package for Python. Both are available from the default install of Python on the cluster: /opt/exp_soft/python-2.7.2/bin We've…

Gene expression modulation for HIV

Jul 11, 2012

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UCT researchers working at the CSIR are making use of image analysis on ICTS's HPC cluster to attempt to identify microRNA molecules that have the potential to inhibit HIV infection. Below is a description of their work by Rethabile Khutlang:

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HPC shutdown

Jul 9, 2012

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This serves as the 2nd of 3 notifications of the Sunday 22nd July data centre shut down in 2 weeks time.

The ICTS data centres will be shut down completely on Sunday the 22nd of July between 07h00 and 19h00

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CHPC BLUEGENE training

Jul 6, 2012

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The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC), in partnership with International Business Machines (IBM) corporation will be conducting two advanced user training workshops about our BLUEGENE/P System. The first from 15 to 17 August 2012 at the CHPC offices in

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EMBOSS

Jun 22, 2012

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We've installed the EMBOSS package which contains a suite of very useful tools for sequence alignment, protein identification, nucleotide pattern analysis and much more.

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Important notification – ICTS HPC downtime in July

Jun 13, 2012

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Notification of downtime NB, please read this!: This serves as initial notification of the Sunday 22nd July data centre shut down in 6 weeks time. The ICTS data centres will be shut down completely on Sunday the 22nd of…

Folding software

Jun 11, 2012

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We've installed two new software packages, NASP-1.5 and UNAfold 3.8. NASP (Nucleic Acid Structures Predictor) predicts the most probable secondary structures evident within a set of aligned nucleic acid sequences and was written by three UCT researchers, J.Y. Semegni, R.…

CPU hours breakdown

Jun 8, 2012

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Below is a graph of the CPU hours consumed to date on all of our clusters. We've broken down the usage per department or research group. CPU hours total

Below is a breakdown of the SAGrid CPU 13,543 hours performed on the ZA-UCT-ICTS…

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