Services

The Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture (IMBBC) / Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) offers four installations. One of them is the high-performance computing cluster “Zorbas” (HCMR-HPC), of 400 cores and 5TB memory containing more than 200 bioinformatics packages and pipelines, covering several types of analysis (e.g., assembly, metagenomics, ddRAD analysis, and population genetics).

The HCMR-HPC installation supports users so the latter can conduct research in assembling and analysing reference genomes of marine non-model organisms, in transcriptome analysis, in analysis of microbial diversity (metagenomics), as well as DNA metabarcoding.

Support offered

HCMR offers its installation to researchers, students and trainees to carry out high level research in accordance with AQUASERV objectives. The AQUASERV users will be provided access to the internet, a desk, and will be offered the possibility to work with the different groups of activities at the Institute. The users will benefit from the guidance of highly qualified HCMR scientists for the preparation of the stay and during laboratory analyses.

Modality of access

Combined cost: core/hour. Access can be remote or local. A typical access consists of 5.000 units. Users will be assisted by dedicated personnel.