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Access Chipster with CSG

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Access Chipster with CSG

Introduction

This guide is intended for researchers who want to use Chipster (v3.11.2), is a user-friendly software for analyzing high-throughput data such as NGS and microarrays, in the cloud-based resources provided by EGI.

The Chipster server configured at CESGA offers:

  • 4 vCPU cores,
  • 16GB of RAM,
  • 200GB in /data
  • Software and tools (v3.11.2) are in /cvmfs/chipster.egi.eu/

This how-to has been tested in the EGI Applications on Demand Infrastructure.

The only pre-requisite to access and use the Chipster testbed is to be a member of this infrastructure.

Objectives

In this guide we will show how to

  • Create a temporary Chipster account to access the testbed;
  • Use the temporary account to access and run the bio-informatics applications.

How to access the Chipster testbed

To access the Chipster tested, a valid account is needed.

  • If the user already HAS a valid user name and password for this Chipster service, he/she can launch the Chipster client from the Chipster
  • If the user did NOT use this Chipster server before or if username and password have expired, please use this link to define a nickname and password for the Chipster server (see next section for more details).
    • The password will be valid for one month.

How to create a temporary account with CSG

In this section we will show how to create this temporary account using the JSR 286 portlet available in the Catania Science Portal.

To use the portlet to create/renew the temporary account click here and provide the needed information in the second accordion as showed below:


Chipster 1.png


When the new account is create/renewed, the user will be notified by the following message:


Chipster 3.png


Now you can use these credentials to access the server