Life Sciences

RCAC supports life sciences researchers with guides, tutorials, and workshops covering bioinformatics workflows on Purdue's HPC clusters. Whether you are new to HPC or looking to optimize an existing pipeline, start here.

• Start Here

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  New to HPC for bioinformatics? Begin with the orientation guide.

  HPC Orientation for Biologists

• Guides

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  Step-by-step guides for common bioinformatics tasks: Nextflow, R, SRA downloads, QC, and more.

  Running Bioinformatics on RCAC

• Tutorials

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  In-depth tutorials for gene prediction, genome assembly, and Hi-C analysis.

  Gene Prediction with BRAKER3

• Genomics Exchange Workshops

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  A biweekly workshop series covering HPC skills for genomics researchers.

  Workshop schedule