On Monday the 13th of August at about 19:10 we had a power failure in one of our racks. All the servers in the 4 right most columns in all enclosures lost power. We're still not sure exactly how this
…Identification of novel genetic variants in individuals with Bipolar Disorder
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
…Post maintenance
The cluster is back up again after the electrical maintenance. The system looks OK but if you notice any weirdness please do contact us.…
BioPython, NumPy and ClustalW
Gene expression modulation for HIV
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:
…HPC shutdown
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
…CHPC BLUEGENE training
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
…EMBOSS
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
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
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.…