QUICK START GUIDES AND TUTORIALS

Begin your journey with our convenient Tutorials and detailed Knowledge Center for more information about how CAVATICA can help you with your research.  

Is there a workflow missing that you’d like to see? Contact us to request a new one or assistance!

ANALYZE PETABYTES OF PUBLIC DATA IMMEDIATELY AND SECURELY

With the ease and lower cost of sequencing technologies, there has been an explosion of ‘omics data produced. This has resulted in a cumulative number of genomes, exomes, transcriptomes, etc. In combination with proteomics and images, these datasets require an enormous amount of storage facilities to house, and high performance computation capacity to process and analyze it. Prior to the launch of CAVATICA, in order for researchers to compute over a large dataset, or analyze their own data alongside it, they had download the dataset to their own hardware or high performance computing cluster. 

Now, CAVATICA allows researchers to immediately and securely access public data on the cloud, including raw and processed data from whole genome, whole exome, RNA, microRNA, bisulfite sequencing, proteomics and imaging studies. Both Open Access and Controlled Access data is available. 

$300 in CREDITS TO SUPPORT YOUR RESEARCH

An important goal of CAVATICA is to understand how researchers can use cloud computing resources to analyze their data. Unlike traditional models, where the cost of compute and data storage is paid up front, on the CAVATICA platform you only incur costs as you run an analysis.

However, we've found that it can be daunting to try to learn a system while worrying about analysis costs. For this reason, the NCI has generously provided substantial funds to support your compute and storage on CAVATICA as you are getting familiar with the platform. When you create an account on the CAVATICA platform, you'll be automatically granted $300 in credits.

Whether you are a new user or an experienced one, the only costs you will incur when using CAVATICA are those for computation and for storage of any files you upload or output files you generate. All costs on the platform are directly based on Amazon Web Services (AWS) on-demand or spot instance pricing, and all storage costs are based on AWS S3 data storage pricing. If you would like help with estimating the cost of an upcoming project, please feel free to email us at support@velsera.com.

Of course, once you've used the credits, you can contact us to create a billing group that can be supported via a credit card or purchase order.