Software at FAS Informatics

Formal(ish) software development is represented in FAS Informatics by Software Operations, a group of software developers that work closely with Informatics scientific staff and FAS Research Computing to enable scientists and core staff to take advantage of the massive Cannon research computing infrastructure.

Scientific Software

setup and troubleshooting support for informatics applications in the huge Cannon application library, including RaxML, Qiime, and Trinity
setup Slurm jobs to run informatics applications, including parallelization assistance
adapt third party software for Cannon job submission

Python Expertise

ad-hoc and organized Python assistance
parallelization assistance (Slurm job submission, multiprocessing module, MPI
third party package setup, including source builds against Cannon libraries and Singularity containerization
web and database applications
code professionalization