Files from the core facility are downloaded locally to my computer; "NGS Drive".
This drive is backuped in multiple places including
a)
I have been using for a few months and just started hosting on Github https://github.com/sr320/ipython_nb. IPython is great for so many reasons.
demo
GitHub is nice given the iterative nature of going back to a notebook, thus having version control?
Here is a recent entry acessible via http://nbviewer.ipython.org/
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/sr320/ipython_nb/master/BlackAb_Annot.ipynb
A screencast from early on
Most of the "secondary" analysis (which I consider playing with large text files) I try to do within my IPython Notebook or SQLShare. I put BLAST in this category and this is accomplished locally on 16 core machine (hummingbird) for big jobs or 4 core machine (greenbird) for light jobs. See example above for how I try to go from IPython to SQLShare.
These files are housed on a Synology NAS. My folder is public here. This is where I write and read working files to and from.
After the secondary analysis, pretty pictures need to be made. Some examples of how this might be done...
A few things I can't do without (besides whats listed above)