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• Linux: Ubuntu^® 16.04¹, Redhat^® 7 or later, CentOS^® 7 or later versions of these distributions²
• 64-bit 2GHz quad-core processor³
• 48GB of RAM⁴
• 1TB of storage available for data
• /opt – 100GB of storage available for installation

• A broadband internet connection

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¹Recent versions of Ubuntu ship with incompatible packages. Until we have resolved this, deploy Flow with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

²We highly recommend using the latest versions of Redhat^® or CentOS^®The Redhat^® 8, CentOS^® 8, and Ubuntu^® 20 are currently having issues with installation of python and python-pip, please request aid from support to see alternatives and solutions.

³Note that some analyses have higher system requirements for example to run the STAR aligner on a reference genome of size ~3 GB (such as human, mouse or rat), 16 cores are required.

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