Setting up an Amazon ftp server to receive big files

Sharing large files with collaborators has rarely been a problem, we usually just compress them and put them on our web server and then send the link to our collaborator who can then download the file. However, we have struggled to find a solution to receive large files. We usually run out of space in […]

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BEAST in the cloud

We recently managed to set-up an account on amazon web service (AWS) that will enable us to test out how practical and efficient it will be to do computationally intensive analyses in the cloud. We often wonder whether it is worth spending loads of money on new servers and lots of time managing the hardware […]

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