Announcing our newest Amazon Machine Image

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We are pleased to announce the release of our newest Galaxy/command-line Amazon Machine Image. The new features of this AMI include updated versions of all of the bioinformatics software, updated and fixed Galaxy tool interfaces, and a Galaxy FTP server that makes it easy to transfer large files to Galaxy. Instructions on how to launch… Read more »

Newest UCD Biocore Galaxy AMI now available!

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Having just completed our week-long Bioinformatics Short Course, we are pleased to announce that we have made our custom Galaxy AMI (ID: ami-bc586cf9) available for public use in the Amazon Cloud.  This new AMI contains many of the standard tools from Galaxy as well as many custom tools and interfaces, such as Sickle, Scythe, GATK2, SGA, velvet,… Read more »

Genome Center Cloud – Coming Soon!

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Cloud computing has gotten a lot of attention in the last couple of years.  As a result, countless companies (such as Amazon, Rackspace, etc) now offer services for those who need quick access to servers and storage- without the need for server rooms, full time sys admins, etc. So with all of these pre-existing services… Read more »