About Us

The Bioinformatics Facility of the Biotechnology · Bioservices Center (BBC) is located in the Biology/Physics Building.

The facility resources include a 17-node Apple Workgroup Cluster for Bioinformatics. The cluster consists of:

• 17-node, 34-processor Apple Xserve G5 Cluster
  • 2.3GHz PowerPC G5 processors
• 2GB memory/node
• Gigabit ethernet connection within the cluster

• 2TB Apple Xserve RAID Array
• RAID5 array consisting of 6 400GB disks plus one “hot spare”

• Mac OS X Server 10.4.6

• The Bioteam iNquiry Informatics Clustering Kit
  • Distributed resource management system (Sun Grid Engine)
• Web-based front end to bioinformatics applications
• Over 170 informatics open source applications are included, and it is extensible to licensed and other open source applications. Current applications include the EMBOSS, PHYLIP, HMMer & Blast suites, Clustalw, Paup*, MrBayes, and many more.