The Research Support team of Academic Services and Technologies , a Division of Information Services and Technology and The Informatics Institute support a number of scientific platforms and applications at the University.

Links to the following topics can be found in the left panel of each page throughout this section.

• What do you want to do lays out the general types of software we support and addresses the important issue of whether a separate account is needed to access the software.

• Descriptions of Server software: a starting point to learn about the software applications and the scientific problems that they address, with links that will aid people in learning how to use these tools
   
• Client Software: Software required to access the Linux workstations Scientific Server remotely from desktop computers for those applications that are not web-enabled.

• Sunfire 6900 Server and the software applications we run on it including sequence analysis, molecular modeling, and statistical analysis software.
   
• The Linux Cluster: The RedHat Linux workstations and servers and the software applications we run on it including sequence analysis, molecular modeling, and quantitave analysis software, software development, and a variety of Open Source productivity applications.

• FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions (Research Space, etc)

• News: Occasional postings from AST and the Institute