Clean up intermediate data

🧹 Please clean up!

Once your job has finished you can safely Clear Intermediate Results :) This saves a massive amount of space,

Data Cleanup Tool

CryoSPARC has a very good Data Cleanup Tool. Please use it. Your storage admins (and your own allocation) will thank you!

Lots of polished datasets that went through multiple cycles only the first input and the last output in their history: the intermediate data steps in the middle can be re-built simply by Restarting the job.

Cryo-microscopy particles are incredibly data intensive. While Discworld doesn’t hold your data at all, things load faster onto Discworld when your data is slimmer. Cryo-EM data is one of the largest users of analytical data storage on campus, so you’re lowering the Uni’s burden by using the Data Cleanup Tool.

Data Cleanup Guide

Structa Bio Inc. (the company behind CryoSPARC) have a good guide about data management. Please follow it here: Guide—Data Cleanup