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Tufts' participants from the Department of Physics use the cluster for analysis of ATLAS data. Compute jobs run continuously in support of this effort. For additional information see ATLAS and more recently Higgs news.
Joshua Ainsley
Our work at the Laboratory of Leon Reijmers, PhD, Tufts University Neuroscience Department focuses on changes in gene expression that occurs in neurons during learning and memory formation. To examine these events on a genome-wide scale, we use a technique called next generation sequencing which generates millions of "reads" of short nucleotide sequences. By sequencing the RNA that is present before and after a behavioral paradigm designed to induce learning in mice and then comparing the results, we can begin to understand some of the basic steps that occur in a live animal forming a memory. The cluster is essential for our research since figuring out where millions of short DNA sequences map on the mouse genome is a very computationally intensive process. Not only would the results take much longer to obtain on a single desktop, but we would be very limited in our ability to modify parameters of our analysis to see how that affects the results. What would take weeks or months take hours or days thanks to the resources provided by the Tufts cluster.
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