More space, and a drive that is not warning of impending doom! Here are some tips and tricks for updating the disk capacity of a server with minimal down time and even letting users know about it!
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Halophile Genome Sequencing
Together with the Eisen and Facciotti labs at UC Davis, we sequenced and annotated the genomes of eight Halophilic Archaea. These are bugs that love to grow in environments with very high salt, and are often found in solar salterns, crystalizer ponds where salt is dried out of the ocean. The challenge for this project was that all of the sequence annotation and analysis was completed at the American Society of Microbiology’s 2008 annual meeting in Philadelphia, PA. We love these kind of crazy challenges, and were able to annotate the data, find new discoveries and present them to the audience in hours. For more information, visit the halophile website.
Together with the Eisen and Facciotti labs at UC Davis, we sequenced and annotated the genomes of eight Halophilic Archaea. These are bugs that love to grow in environments with very high salt, and are often found in solar salterns, crystalizer ponds where salt is dried out of the ocean. The challenge for this project was that all of the sequence annotation and analysis was completed at the American Society of Microbiology’s 2008 annual meeting in Philadelphia, PA. We love these kind of crazy challenges, and were able to annotate the data, find new discoveries and present them to the audience in hours. For more information, visit the halophile website.
Rules for using the computers
We have a bunch of shared access computers that everyone has to use, and we don’t want the machines to be compromised. Here are some rules that should not be too onerous, however Rob will disable accounts that don’t follow the rules.
Passwords
You should use strong passwords, and that really means sentences or phrases. It does not equate to the number of capitals or punctuation in your password.
From time to time we will run password crackers on all machines in the lab. If your account has a weak password it will be disabled without notice.
You should not share your password – that is a common way for machines to get hacked and accounts to be abused. If you need to share data, you can either change the permissions on your account or you can set up a common working area (see below).
Common working areas
Many machines have a directory like /data. Write access is typically asserted at the group level, and you may need to be added to the group to write to the directory. Let an admin know if you need to be added.
Databases
Please do not download nr, viral nr, seed nr, or other directories to your home directory. The chances are high that (a) we have them somewhere, and (b) others will want them. If everyone downloads the databases we will run out of disk space quickly.