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Using Toil to run Cactus, a Full-Genome Alignment with Autoscaling on AWS

This workflow was tested and run using Toil 3.12.0. Before proceeding, please follow the steps in the Toil Autoscaling with AWS Tutorial necessary for the initial setup of a toil leader node. This tutorial will outline how to run Cactus, a reference-free whole-genome multiple alignment program on AWS with autoscaling. The example genomes for this… Continue reading Using Toil to run Cactus, a Full-Genome Alignment with Autoscaling on AWS

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Credential Setup: Toil Autoscaling with AWS

This post will cover credential setup and the initial launching of a toil autoscaling cluster. Note: To manage autoscaling, toil mimics a mesos cluster by spinning up an AWS EC2 instance with a docker image of a mesos leader node. This sort of virtual cluster can then spin up mesos worker nodes as needed to… Continue reading Credential Setup: Toil Autoscaling with AWS