Documentation

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COSMIC² supports the cryoEM community in the following areas:

1. Submit cryoEM jobs from the COSMIC² science gateway website
2. Super-user access to submit jobs directly on SDSC-Expanse
3. Computational consulting

Below is information related to the science gateway website submission.

Submitting jobs on COSMIC2 science gateway

Tutorial for uploading particle stacks

• Go through our tutorial for learning how to upload particle stacks and submit jobs to COSMIC²

How to use COSMIC² science gateway

• Accessing web server
• Data upload
• Available tools
• Checking job status
• Terminating existing job
• Downloading results
• Data management on COSMIC²

Data formats

Micrographs and single-particle stacks are expected to be in the format of RELION STAR files.

Read more here.

Computing allocations

COSMIC2 is operated on the NSF-funded Comet supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. As such, there are no costs associated with running jobs.

Read more here.