Summary and Setup
For this Month’s ComBEE meeting, we will be having a NCBI themed day. The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is a branch of the National Institute of Health (NIH). It is website where people can submit data, browse data, download data, and even analyze data. It is commonly and frequently used by researchers across the globe. Today we will look at how the NCBI website is organized, and explore some of its main datarepositories.
Prerequisites
- Basic introduction to command line: https://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/
- Access to a computer or laptop with a terminal, and connected to the internet
FIXME: Setup instructions live in this document. Please specify the tools and the data sets the Learner needs to have installed.
Data Sets
Download the data zip file and unzip it to your Desktop
Software Setup
Details
Setup for different systems can be presented in dropdown menus via a
spoiler tag. They will join to this discussion block, so
you can give a general overview of the software used in this lesson here
and fill out the individual operating systems (and potentially add more,
e.g. online setup) in the solutions blocks.
Use PuTTY
Use Terminal.app
Use Terminal