Whole genome alignment is crucial to a large number of important applications in genomics, and is particularly important to our work on convergent evolution in birds. The current state of the art software for whole genome alignment is progressiveCactus, developed by the same group that built the UCSC genome browser. Getting this software to work in our computing environment is thus extremely important to our scientific progress, and there is no way we could do it without the the help of the ACI-REF team at Harvard.  – Tim Sackton, Harvard University PostDoc, on Harvard ACI-REFs Bob Freeman and Aaron Kitzmiller