The iPlant Agave Application Program Interface, High Performance Computing, and You (the Computationally Competent).

iPlant has much to offer researchers, including those who are computationally competent and utilize the command line for their work. The graphical user interface (GUI) that is utilized through the web portal is laid upon an infrastructure that can be utilized and optimized through the iPlant Agave application program interface (API) in order to access the high performance computing made available through the Texas Advanced Computing Center and other resources. The next generation sequencing alignment and variant discovery pipeline utilized at Iowa State University by the Reecy Lab Group has been implemented in the iPlant Agave system and perl scripts have been created to streamline the process of taking advantage of having the pipeline available at iPlant. All of this can be done from the comfort of your own computer without having to directly log on to a server.