What is the Australian Fgenesh++ Service?

Fgenesh++ is a pipeline for automatic prediction of genes in eukaryotic genomes based on gene finding software. Fgenesh++ is a software package that uses a combination of copyrighted and public software and data to automatically annotate genomes. The copyrighted software is owned by Softberry.

The Australian BioCommonsoffers Australian-based researchers fully subsidised access to the Fgenesh++ license with resources and service support underpinned by Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. If you would like to know more about the funding and operation of Fgenesh++ Service, please see our webpage.

How do I access it?

Researchers can apply to access Fgenesh++ via the Australian Fgenesh++ Service by completing the

If you are a Pawsey user, you will be emailed details of logging in to the Fgenesh++ instance. If you are new to Pawsey, a user account will be created for you, then details for login emailed to you.

How do I make a public key?

A public key is required to access the Fgenesh++ instance. 

To create a keypair, use the following commands on your local machine (the computer that you will be accessing the Pawsey resource from):

ssh-keygen -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/firstname_lastname_key

chmod 600 ~/.ssh/firstname_lastname_key

cat ~/.ssh/firstname_lastname_key.pub

The output of the last command is the public key. Please note that you should never give out the private key, which is stored in ~/.ssh/ as above.

Who is funding and operating Australian Fgenesh++ Service?

The Australian BioCommons operates Fgenesh++ Service in collaboration with, and underpinned by resources provided by, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and Bioplatforms Australia. The service is underpinned by computational resources provided by the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre.