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CLC Genomics

NOTE: UNC has 2 floating licenses for CLC Genomics Workbench.

So there may be times when you will not be able to find an open license. On the other hand you should close CLC completely if you are not actively using it for analysis. These are reserved for high-throughput sequence data analysis.

Hardware recommendation: A late model computer (PC/Mac) with a min of 8 GB RAM and 64-bit OS is required for using CLC. While CLC runs on the machine you probably will not be able to do anything else on it so plan your analysis accordingly.

Tutorials for use of CLC are available here: http://www.clcbio.com/support/tutorials/.

Install CLC Bio Genomics Workbench on local machine (current version 24.x as of January 2024)

NOTE: When accessing the installer download links below you will need to log-in with your onyen and password.

  • Installer for CLC Genomics Workbench for PC is available here.
  • Installer for CLC Genomics Workbench for Mac (Intel) is available here.
  • Installer for CLC Genomics Workbench for Mac (Apple Silicon, M* processor) is available here.

These are self-extracting installers.

During the install process, when the installer asks you to pick a license source:

  1.    Choose “Configure License Server Connection”
  2.    Click Next
  3.    Choose “Enable License Server Connection”
  4.    Choose “Manually Specify”
  5.    Enter dawn.med.unc.edu as name for the license server
  6.    Leave the port number at the default 6200
  7.    Click Finish