As a part of our mission we are designing easy-to-use web interfaces for various computational biology tools. This application suite and interface is a product of long development of an user friendly system providing access to high performance computing for computational biology. The development started in 2001 as a CBSU project and over the years changed into Computational Biology Applications Suite for High Performance Computing (BioHPC Suite). This suite is available for download along with the interface source code and will run/interface with any Microsoft-based cluster. You can find more details on the BioHPC Suite home page. The BioHPC project was supported in 2006-2008 under Microsoft High-Performance Computing Institutes (CBSU was one of them) and currently is supported by Microsoft Research.

The applications are run on CBSU computer clusters as well as on Microsoft Athena cluster. For more information about our hardware resources can be found here. Microsoft gave us access to their 64 node cluster in their headquarters running MS Windows HPC Server 2008, the cluster's name is Athena and it is being accessed via HPC profile / JSDL protocol. It is an example of how well BioHPC can integrate geographically dispersed computing resources.

The usage of various applications in this BioHPC installation is summarized on BioHPC@CBSU statistics page.

Some of the tools are freely available for all, some, due to a very high computational demand, are available to registered users only. Current user id, together with user-specific functions, is displayed in the bar above.

We spent a lot of time and effort developing this interface, and we hope it is a useful resource. You can help us in this effort by acknowledging our contribution to your work and research. Please acknowledge us in all publications and presentation of work that used our resources using the following text. Please send us information about your publications and presentations to the address below. Better yet - take our survey. Thanks!

You can subscribe to receive information updates about upgrades/fixes of existing applications and about newly added applications. This is just an e-mail list, and it is different from registering as "registered users" (i.e. registered users have to subscribe separately).

Please contact us with any comments or questions at biohpc@cac.cornell.edu . You may visit our home page for more information about the unit.