Upcoming Classes

CIT Training classes, including Seminars for Scientists, and classes taught by the Helix Systems Staff. These classes are free but registration is required. You can sign up for these classes online at the CIT Training website.

Slides and Handouts from Previous Classes

Biowulf: A Beowulf for Bioscience
An introduction to the Biowulf cluster, how to decide if Biowulf is the right platform for your application, and how to get started submitting jobs.
Steven Fellini & Susan Chacko, 24 Oct 2008

Effective Utilization of the Biowulf Cluster for Bioinformatics
David Hoover, 21 May 2008

Biowulf: A Beowulf for Bioscience
An introduction to the Biowulf cluster, how to decide if Biowulf is the right platform for your application, and how to get started submitting jobs.
Steven Fellini & Susan Chacko, 25 Apr 2007

Using Rosetta on the Biowulf Cluster (Powerpoint file)
David Hoover, 4 Dec 2007

Gene Synthesis using DNAWorks (Powerpoint file)
David Hoover, 15 Nov 2006

Transitioning from GCG to EMBOSS on the Helix Systems
The GCG sequence analysis suite is being discontinued on the Helix Systems in Spring 2007. This class provides an overview of the equivalent package EMBOSS, and how to run EMBOSS programs on the command-line and via the web interface.
Susan Chacko & Jean Mao, 24 Jan 2007

Structural Biology on the Biowulf Cluster
Overview of structural biology applications on the cluster, and tips on parallelizing large scale structural biology programs using scripts.
David Hoover, 10 Jan 2006

Genome Browser Tutorial
Tutorial and examples for using the UCSC Genome Browser.
David Hoover, 14 Nov 2006

Multiple Sequence Alignment: Theory and Practice
Peter FitzGerald (NCI) & Susan Chacko, 16 September 2003

Basic Security for Unix Workstations
Steve Bailey, 10 Jul 2003

Easy Large-Scale Sequence Analysis on the NIH Biowulf supercluster
Steven Fellini & Susan Chacko, 29 Oct 2002

Making Movies of Molecules
How to make animated molecules for web pages and presentations
Susan Chacko, 9 Jan 2002