Welcome to the ODCF
The Omics IT and Data Management Core Facility (ODCF) provides high-throughput computing infrastructure, data management for sequencing and other research data and essential bioinformatic services to DKFZ groups and their collaborating partners.
ODCF Data Management
Data Management Overview
- Data Storage Structure – Information about the storage structure of sequencing and other research data at the ODCF
- Project Setup – Instructions for setting up a new project at the ODCF
- Project Member Management – Instructions on managing user access and roles within ODCF projects
- Data Submission – Guidelines for registering sequencing data in OTP projects
- External Data Submissions via ODCF GUIDE – Instructions for submitting external data via the ODCF GUIDE
- Metadata Requirements – Explanation of metadata fields required for data submission into an OTP project
- Sample Name Parser – Information on sample name parser in ODCF GUIDE to extract metadata from structured sample names
- Data Withdrawal – Instructions for withdrawing samples and data from OTP projects
Data Processing (OTP/Workflows)
- ODCF Analyses – Overview of analyses provided by ODCF for sequencing data stored in OTP
- Workflow Documentation – Bioinformatic workflows and quality overview
- Single-Cell Data Processing with Cell Ranger – Instructions for processing single-cell RNA-seq data using Cell Ranger in OTP
- IGV Linker - Instructions for accessing OTP workflow results via IGV Linker
Data Sharing
- Incoming Data Transfers – Instructions for importing external data into OTP projects via various methods
- Outgoing Data Transfers – Instructions for transferring data from ODCF to collaborators
- GHGA – Information on uploading data to the German Human Genome-Phenome Archive (GHGA)
ODCF IT Infrastructure
DKFZ Compute Cluster
- Compute Cluster – Information about the DKFZ Compute Cluster based on IBM LSF
- Cluster Wiki – DKFZ cluster user documentation
- Storage Offers – Information about the different storage options provided by ODCF
- ODCF Transfer Server – Information on accessing the ODCF transfer server for external data transfers that cannot go through DKFZ proxy servers
ODCF Software Tools / Webservices
- ODCF GUIDE – tool for submitting and validating metadata for your submissions
- One Touch Pipeline (OTP) - sequencing data and results GUI
- IGV Linker - genome visualization tool
- RStudio Workbench 01 - RStudio Workbench 02 - Wiki - server for development and interactive analysis (please read the Wiki page before using either of the two servers!)
- Jupyterhub 01 - Jupyterhub 02 - Wiki - server for development and interactive analysis

