About

The Laboratorio de Bioinformática y Química Computacional (LBQC) is a research laboratory at Universidad Católica del Maule (UCM) in Talca, Chile. It belongs to the Departamento de Medicina Traslacional, Facultad de Medicina. Several members are also researchers at the Centro de Investigación de Estudios Avanzados del Maule (CIEAM).

The laboratory was established in 2022. It supports research and teaching in computational chemistry, molecular simulation, and bioinformatics (including genomics workflows on the shared cluster).

How to write the laboratory on a paper: Affiliation. People: Team. How to use the cluster: Documentation.

Location

Laboratory C111, Sector C, San Miguel campus, Talca, Chile.

The same building area holds a classroom for teaching and meetings, a storage room, and the cluster server room.

Infrastructure

• Teaching and meeting classroom
• Server room (login node and compute nodes)
• Storage room
• Shared HPC cluster documented under Docs

Cluster hardware was acquired with support from the Faculty of Medicine, UCM, and ANID (SIA SA772100091), Chile.

Contact

• Director: Dr. Erix W. Hernández — see Team
• Cluster administrator: Dr. Francisco M. Adasme — fadasme@ucm.cl