-[CyVerse](https://cyverse.rocks/about) is a similar computing platform that also offers computing resources for storing, sharing, and working with data with a graphical interface, as well as an API. Computing was previously offered using the cloud computing platform from CyVerse called [Atmosphere](https://cyverse.org/refocusing-atmosphere-to-support-cloud-native-development), which relied on users using virtual machines. Users will now use a new version of Atmosphere with partnership with [Jetstream](https://jetstream-cloud.org/). This allows users to use containers for easier collaboration and also offers US users more computing power and storage. Originally called iPlant Collaborative, it was started through funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support life sciences research, particularly to support ecology, biodiversity, sustainability, and agriculture research. It is led by the University of Arizona, the Texas Advanced Computing Center, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. It offers access to an environment for performing analyses with Jupyter (for Python mostly) and RStudio (for R mostly) and a variety of tools for Genomic data analysis. See [here](https://cyverse.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DEapps/pages/241882146/List+of+Applications) for a list of applications that are supported by CyVerse. Note that you can also install tools on both platforms. Both CyVerse and Galaxy offer lots of helpful documentation, to help users get started with informatics analyses.
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