Discovery Studio | Research IT Core Services

Discovery Studio

Description

Discovery Studio is a suite of life science software solutions including tools for protein, ligand, and pharmacophore modeling.

Availability

Discovery Studio 1.7 and 2.0 are available on the Linux cluster.

Notes on using Discovery Studio on the cluster

Both of these and other packages part of Accelrys suite can be accessed by first issuing module load ds command and then invoking the relevant binaries.
SciTegic Pipeline Pilot is a run-time scheduler of sorts that runs the DS jobs in the compute nodes (as seen by SciTegic, not connected to the Torque).
Pipeline Pilot is not integrated with the Torque/Moab scheduling system, so currently only single-node jobs can be run using DS.
For GUI-based users using NX, there is a desktop icon called "Discovery Studio-2.0" that can be used to access Discovery Studio 2.0.

Need Help?

For technical assistance with other research software, email software@bmi.cchmc.org. For basic desktop support or assistance with clinical information systems, call the Cincinnati Children's Service Desk, 513-636-4100, or visit the Information Services CenterLink site. UC employees should call the UCit Help Desk, 513-556-HELP.

A note about UCit software

UC researchers are served with desktop software by UCIT. In many cases this software is licensed specifically to UC employees only (i.e., people who receive paychecks from UC) or must be run on UC-owned or controlled equipment, making it inaccessible to Cincinnati Children's personnel. Please make sure you read the license agreement carefully before you use UC software.

Faculty and students of UC are eligible to purchase software from UC. However, when purchasing from UC, the license agreement states that the software can be installed only on your personally owned or UC-owned computer and not on machines owned by other institutions. Since Children’s Hospital is a separate entity from UC, installing software purchased from UC on CCHMC owned computers is a violation of that license agreement. There is a difference in the price of software purchased from Biomedical Informatics at Children’s Hospital versus from the UC Bookstore. This difference is because UC qualifies for the educational discount whereas Children’s Hospital does not. Although Cincinnati Children’s Hospital is affiliated with UC, we are not a degree granting institution. We are a hospital, therefore we only qualify for the healthcare/non-profit discount.