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NeSI provides a range of services, people, expertise, and information to help computational research projects become reality

Biology
Photos of nerves and neural cells on the heart atrial surface before (left) and after (right) deconvolution.

Supporting faster paths to heart disease insights

"Their engagement prompted us to review our coding and testing methods which has an impact beyond just this project."
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Biology
NeSI HPC platform

Empowering students through HPC skills

"With HPC and molecular dynamics software, it’s a lot faster and more user-friendly, both factors that will continue to be more valuable to labs in the future."
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Biology
Kendall Clements NeSI Case Study Endeavour Fund

Making waves in global food production technology

“The molecular work associated with this research generates huge amounts of data, and NeSI’s resources provide critical computing infrastructure.”
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Biology
NeSI Case Study Ann McCartney Genomics Aotearoa Hero Image

How Genomics Aotearoa and NeSI tackled a big problem (and won)

"Honestly, I have worked on a lot of clusters and I have never had the type of user support that NeSI supply."
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Biology
NeSI Case Study Tony Merriman

Finding genetic help for Māori health

“We’re using NeSI to allow us to do gene alignments – sequencing millions of small segments of DNA."
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Biology
NeSI Case Study Daniel White

Controlling invasive predators with local research

“The support at NeSI has been great. If I had a problem with software running, or need a new program installed, they were there. It’s saved a lot of time.”
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Biology
NeSI Case Study Timothy Bilton Ken Dodds AgResearch

Optimising tools used for genetic analysis

“NeSI helped our team profile our code to detect inefficiencies and helped improve our code, allowing us to run our analyses faster.”
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Biology
David Welch Water Xie NeSI Case Study

Addressing key questions in evolution

"Without NeSI, these computationally intensive studies would simply not be viable."
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Biology

Understanding environmental processes on a microbial level

"High performance computing is essential for researchers working with large and complex genomic datasets. "
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Biology

Priorities for conservation of NZ’s ecosystems and species

“Ben helped us start to think outside of the limitations of running this analysis on our local machine to considering the possibilities of running hundreds and thousands of iterations."
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Biology