Training in Linux for Biomedical Researchers
May 13-15,2020
Where?
National Institutes of Health
9000 Rockville Pike
Building 60, Room 162
Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Objectives
Participants will learn to use a Linux based operating system, including basic commands to navigate the system, cleaning/extracting and transforming data, installing and configuring bioinformatics software, learning to setup basic bioinformatic pipelines, learning to program in Linux etc.
Background
Linux is easy, powerful, flexible, secure and cost effective. Linux is ubiquitous, it runs the Android operating system and a whole lot of other smart electronic devices. The world literally runs on Linux for several reasons…. Linux gives the freedom that is needed for the researchers to implement ideas/thoughts/solutions to solve real world problems. This training is fully biologist friendly, taught by-the-biologists to-the-biologists.
Highlights
- Cloud-based linux environment
- Training provided by active NIH researchers
- Cookbook style bound manual for all exercises
- Continuing Education Credits
Hands-on Skills/Tools taught
- Basic Linux Commands
- Data wrangling in Linux
- File manipulations in Linux
- Scripting in BASH
- Compiling From Source
- Installing From Repo
- Installation Using .DEB
- Creating and Using Profiles
- Environmental Variables
- Basic Linux System Administration
- Intro to R
- Intro to Python
- Generating and using SSH keys
- Setting up and using Git
- Setting up a Sequence analysis pipeline using EMBOSS suite
- Setting up a Transcriptome analysis pipeline using HISAT2 suite
- Setting up a Variant Annotation pipeline
- Creating and Using Containers
For more information and registration, please visit the following page: Information and Registration
