Using SOLiDBioScope.com™
QUICK START GUIDE | OCTOBER 2010
SUBJECT: SOLiDBioScope.com
In this guide This Quick Start Guide covers:
■Access SOLiDBioScope.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
■Log in to SOLiDBioScope.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
■Before you begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
■Use Linux commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
■Run a command-line analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
■Monitor your run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
■Obtain support and more information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Purpose of this
guide
This Quick Start Guide provides instructions for logging into SOLiDBioScope.com™
and using BioScope™ Software to run secondary data analysis (aligning to a reference
genome and base calling) and tertiary data analysis (resequencing: find single
nucleotide polymorphisms [SNPs], copy number variations, inversions, small indels,
large indels; and whole transcriptome analysis: count known exons, create UCSC WIG
files, and find splicing fusion). For more information on BioScope Software, refer to the
Applied Biosystems BioScope™ User Guide (PN 4461308). For a quick reference of the
BioScope Software user interface, refer to the Applied Biosystems SOLiD™ 4 System
Software Integrated Workflow Quick Reference Guide (PN 4448432).
Overview SOLiDBioScope.com is an online suite of software tools for Next Generation
Sequencing (NGS) analysis. It provides you with the scalable resources of cloud
computing to perform intensive NGS data processing. Powered by Penguin On
Demand (POD), SOLiDBioScope.com offers you the ability to “rent a super computer”
and use BioScope Software and other analytical software to run NGS data analyses on
your SOLiD system.
SOLiDBioScope.com provides scientists, researchers, bioinformaticians, and other
specialized users with on-demand access to BioScope Software. The
SOLiDBioScope.com computing infrastructure consists of dynamically-scalable,
highly-optimized Linux clusters for parallel computing. Also available on
SOLiDBioScope.com are specialized hardware and software configurations for high-
performance computing (HPC).
Your analyses run directly on the physical cores of computer nodes, not on virtual
computers, so you that you have access to the server’s full resources for maximum
performance and to input-output for massive HPC workloads. The result for HPC
applications is a significant improvement in performance over traditional cloud
computing.