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CRC COVID-19 Updates and Resources

Users can remotely access CRC clusters from almost anywhere in the world. For the H2P cluster go here for instructions. For the HTC cluster, go here.

Consultants and other team members are available. Reach a consultant by submitting a Help Ticket. Please note: you must be logged in to submit a Help Ticket. If you do not have an account create one online. You can also visit the CRC contact page.

Some remaining spring workshops are cancelled. Watch for updates on workshops that may move online.

CRC workshops offered through the University Library System and Health Science Library System are offered online. Visit the University Library System calendar and the Health Science Library System calendar for updates.

If you conduct research related to COVID-19, we will provide a supplemental allocation and higher priority. Contact crc-team@list.pitt.edu or bgc14@pitt.edu.

Learn advanced programming along with CRC's Barry Moore ll

When not working with CRC collaborators, research assistant professor Barry Moore ll spends evenings teaching himself advanced programming languages like the functional programming language Haskell - while streams his own learning sessions. Barry and his audience learn together. Follow the live stream and find previous sessions on his Twitch channel and find an archive of sessions on his YouTube channel. In the future, he plans to work with other functional programming languages such as Purescript. Happy computing!

More information and registration at:
https://www.hsls.pitt.edu/instruction/basic-python-through-jupyter/1139.

World Historical Gazetteer creates new historical knowledge

Ruth Mostern, director of Pitt’s World History Center, spearheads the World Historical Gazetteer digital atlas supported by CRC. The WHG is searchable by names of places and natural features covering several thousand years, with data in multiple layers from sources linking people and events associated with places. “The gazetteer is a two-way platform for scholarly communication,” explains Mostern. “It will improve people’s own research while researchers also contribute to a growing shared resource.”

At left is the skyline of modern Istanbul, Turkey, identified in the WHG by the city's many names in different languages, and associated historical events over millennia.

Computational tools to enlighten dark areas of cancer genetics

Xiaosong Wang, associate professor in pathology and biomedical Informatics, leads the Computational Genomics and Translational Cancer Biology lab in the Pitt Cancer Institute. This unified computational and wet laboratory explores cancer genomics using next generation sequencing and genome profiling in a multidisciplinary approach uniting researchers in bioinformatics, genetics, and molecular and cell biology. The lab’s guiding principle is translational “bench to bedside” research – transforming genomic data into precision medicine to battle cancers, particularly breast cancer.

Impacting human life now

CRC is supporting the development and human imaging studies of a powerful new MRI technology being done by Pitt's Radiofrequency Research Facility and the 7 Tesla Bioengineering Research program led by bioengineering professor Tamer Ibrahim. The 7 Tesla scanner is one of the most powerful MRI devices in the world, able to reveal details not visible in typical MRI machines. particularly in brain markers implicated in diseases associated with aging, such as Alzheimer’s and late life depression, The lab l develops adiofrequency antennas to create even electromagnetic waves to avoid potentially dangerous heating of brain tissue, for which the team uses CRC to simulate hundreds of thousands of possible antenna configurations.

Getting started with CRC

Do I need an account?

What software does CRC have?

How much computing time can I get?

Does CRC offer training?

Go to crc.pitt.edu/CRC_How_to_get_started for all the answers you need to begin computing with CRC.

Clark and Chikina labs employ CRC in exploring convergent evolution

The star-nosed mole of North America and the naked mole rat of East Africa are both blind. They underwent the same adapatation to living underground, although they are different species separated by thousands of miles. Marine mammals like manatees and dolphins underwent shared adaptations to aquatic life. What could the convergence of independent physical changes reveal about the evolution of the genes responsible for those physical changes? The labs of Maria Chikina and Nathan Clark explore this evolution relying on CRC resources for computation tasks to compare rates of evolution for a gene in one species to rates of evolution for a gene in another species.

How Stars Explode

In the spring of 1006 CE a supernova in the constellation Lupus was the brightest stellar object ever recorded on Earth, bright enough for several months to be easily visible in daylight. Most supernovae are not dramatically visible from Earth and don’t leave visible evidence. What they do leave are supernova remnants: expanding balls of gas heated to millions of degrees Celsius. The remnants hold clues to the origins and deaths of stars, and the lab of Pitt astrophysicist Carles Badenes searches for those clues helped by the resources of the Center for Research Computing.

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CRC COVID-19 Updates and Resources

Learn advanced programming along with CRC's Barry Moore ll

World Historical Gazetteer creates new historical knowledge

Computational tools to enlighten dark areas of cancer genetics

Impacting human life now

Getting started with CRC

Clark and Chikina labs employ CRC in exploring convergent evolution

How Stars Explode

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World Historical Gazetteer creates new historical knowledge

Computational tools to enlighten dark areas of cancer genetics

Impacting human life now

Connecting shared genes and shared traits across species

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CRC operations adjusted to Pitt COVID-19 preventive measures

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