The who, what, when, where and why of AutoFACT. AutoFACT is a perl script that reads a FASTA sequence file and corresponding BLAST output files and performs automatic functional annotation.
The U of A UITS (formerly CCIT) group maintains High Performance Computing systems for use in research applications. A shared memory supercomputer and a Beowulf Linux cluster are available for running jobs requiring a large amount of memory, parallel processing, and certain visualization and scientific applications.
Grid Computing is a useful tool for processes such as data analysis. Below is more information on what grid computing is and how you can use it for you research.