The Paracel High Performance Computer at ICRISAT is a four-node cluster running the Linux OS. Each node contains two 64-bit, AMD Opteron CPUs with a combined storage capacity of 4 X 250 GB, 4GB RAM. The Paracel Linux cluster hosts pipelines (a series of different software through which data is pipelined) and standalone software analysis tools relevant to comparative genomics and population genetics. The comparative genomics toolbox now includes a suite of programs that have been implemented to work in parallel (on all four nodes of the cluster). These programs are useful for marker mining from large public datasets, comparative sequence analysis and phylogeny (http://10.3.6.5/PBSWeb/). The population genetics toolkit includes a parallelized version of the program ‘STRUCTURE' with user interfaces and visualization software along with format conversion tools (http://10.3.6.5/webstructure/login.php)

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