Working with Big Cancer Data in the Collaboratory Cloud 2017 Pre-Work
Install These Tools Before the Workshop
A robust text editor.
For Windows/PC - notepad++ (http://notepad-plus-plus.org/).
For Linux - gedit (http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/).
For Mac – TextWrangler (http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/download.html)
A file decompression tool.
For Windows/PC – 7zip (http://www.7-zip.org/).
For Linux – already there.
For Mac – already there.
A robust internet browser such as Chrome (Internet Explorer is not recommended). Firefox and Safari are also fine.
A PDF viewer (Adobe Acrobat or equivalent).
SSH client - Mac and Linux users already have the command line ssh program that can be run from the terminal. On a MAC, the Terminal window is located in Applications/Utilities. Tip: add the terminal window to your dock so it is easy to open when needed. For Windows users, please download PuTTY: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
SCP/SFTP client - We will be moving data from the servers to the student laptops for visualization. Mac and Linux users already have the command line applications scp and sftp. For Windows users, please install WinSCP: http://winscp.net/eng/download.php
Read these before the workshop
These should take less than an hour to complete.
Data Analysis: Create a cloud Commons
Sequencing terminology
Do These Tutorials Before the Workshop:
This should take one to two hours to complete.