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Accessing Chipster with CSG

Introduction

This guide is intended for researchers who want to use Chipster, 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 you already HAVE a valid user name and password for this Chipster service, you can launch the Chipster client from the Chipster
  • If you HAVE NOT used this Chipster server before or your password has expired, please use this link to define a nickname and password for the Chipster server. The password will be valid for one month.

How to create a temporary account