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The Biochemistry Computational Research Facility (BCRF)

provides access to a Linux cluster and tutorials

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Welcome!

Most of this web site is dedicated to tutorial materials, that can be found under the TUTORIALS menu above. For all posts, go to Blog.

As of July 2026, Jean-Yves Sgro has retired from UW–Madison, and this website is no longer being updated.

If you are interested in workshops, visit the Biotech Center Workshops webpage.

If you are interested in accessing the Biochemistry Compute Cluster (BCC), visit the affiliated CALS Information Technology KB page.

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Biochemistry Compute Cluster

The Biochemistry Computational Cluster (BCC) is a High Throughput Computing (HTC) environment available to the Department of Biochemistry and runs non-interactive jobs using HTCondor.

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Workshop subjects

These are a few of the main focus of the workshops in terms of software and areas of study: Molecular Graphics -PyMOL, Chimera, SybylX-, Molecular -Modelling MODELLER-, Data Analysis – R, Python, Markdown, Reproducible Research,…. Guest speakers are invited for additional topics or software demonstration (e.g. EndNote, MatLab…) …

Accessing the Biochemistry Compute Cluster

Please contact the CALS IT Help Desk for authorized access, and the CALS IT KB for more details.