Welcome to Computational Techniques for Life Sciences

Getting Set Up

Please log in to the WiFi (see handout), then log in to the Lonestar5 cluster. Follow the instructions for your operating system below.

Mac / Linux:

  Open the application 'Terminal'
  ssh username@ls5.tacc.utexas.edu 
  (enter password)
  (enter 6-digit token)

Windows:

  Open the application 'PuTTY'
  enter Host Name: ls5.tacc.utexas.edu
  (click 'Open')
  (enter username)
  (enter password)
  (enter 6-digit token)

Objectives for the Computational Techniques for Life Sciences Summer Institute

Provide attendees the basic skills needed to:

1. Execute life sciences workflows on large-scale systems
2. Run parallel analyses
3. Use Bash/Python/Perl to chain common life sciences applications together to form more complex workflows
4. Analyze and visualize result data in order to gain useful insights

Etherpad

https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/ctls2017