RStudio is a powerful and user-friendly platform for developing and performing R based data analysis. Coupled with R Markdown, one can easily generate visually rich reports that are one of, if not the, most used feature by the R community at EMBL to communicate results. When the popular GBCS RStudio server backed by the large seneca server is too busy, or if you need a convenient way to generate R Markdown reports in parallel or as part of elaborate pipelines, you can use the following script:

Dear Bio-IT community, Before the end of the year, we would like to take the time to thank you all for your support, participation and contributions. We thankfully recognise that Bio-IT - a project spontaneously born within the EMBL Heidelberg community - still preserves its essence and aim. It is and always has been a community initiative, a way to join forces and share knowledge and ideas, reach common objectives, support each other.

Over the years, the use of symlinks and /g group shares became a de facto standard and recommended practice to workaround the limited storage capacity of the home folder in the EMBL cluster. While functional, these workarounds were unfriendly to beginners and suffered from intermittent problems associated with the overload and automatic cleaning procedures of shared drives and/or /scratch, Thanks to discussions and efforts following from a recent Bio-IT taskforce meetings, this quota has now been expanded to 50 GB.