iNquiry is a web portal tool that ties over 100 bioinformatics applications together for ease of use. These tools are all available at the command line, but iNquiry makes them available in easy-to-use forms. A scientist does not need to know anything about high performance computing or clustering technology to use this simple web interface. All processing takes place on our 2000 processor Dell cluster behind the scenes allowing the scientist to focus on his/her research instead of parallel processing, scheduling, or UNIX expertise.
Login account to the iNquiry web portal is required. Access to the portal must be enabled, even for users that have a CCR account. UB faculty interested in using iNquiry should request an account.
The applications suites include:
- EMBOSS
- PHYLIP
- HMMer
- BLAST
- MPI BLAST
- NCBI Toolkit
- Glimmer
- Wise2
- ClustalW
- BLAT
- FASTA
iNquiry Tutorial (NOTE: Login required)