Bioinformatics Training and Education Program
15 January – 15 February 2023
FEATURED BIOINFORMATICS EVENTS
- Data Management Sharing: Part 1 and Part 2
- DOE-NCI Collaboration: MOSSAIC for Advancing Computational Models for Cancer Research
- Variation to biology: optimizing functional analysis of cancer risk variants
- Multiple R courses available covering introductory topics such as base R, data wrangling, and data visualization.
TOPIC SPOTLIGHT
Learn more about why you should take the plunge and learn Unix in our new topic spotlight! Click here for details.
Learn more about why you should take the plunge and learn Unix in our new topic spotlight!
Unix the ultimate tools for data analyst
Now here is the entire story with lots of details etc.What is Unix?
An operating system, just like Windows or MacOS Something that is worth learning Sometimes used interchangeably with Linux, which for our purposes, is just a version of UnixWhy learn Unix?
Many tools (like a bazillion) for biological data analysis are freely available and supported on Unix systems Useful for working with big data, like genomic sequence files To use the NIH High Performance Cluster (HPC) Biowulf for data analysis A few things about the Unix shell… It gives a command line interface where users can type commands Also a scripting language, used to automate repetitive tasks The Bash shell (the Bourne Again SHell) is the most popular Unix shell.How is Unix different from other operating systems?
Does not use a Graphical User Interface (GUI) better known as a “point and click” environment. The user has to learn a series of commands for interacting with a Unix system BUT…a few commands, like the ones we will learn over the next several lessons, will allow us to employ a number of bioinformatics tasksHow much Unix do I need to know to get started?
As with any language, the learning curve for Unix can be quite steep. However, to get started analyzing data you really need to understand the following: Directory navigation: what the directory tree is, how to navigate and move around with cd Absolute and relative paths: how to access files located in directories What simple Unix commands do: ls, mv, rm, mkdir, cat, man Getting help: how to find out more on what a unix command does What are “flags”: how to customize typical unix programs ls vs ls -l Shell redirection: what is the standard input and output, how to “pipe” or redirect the output of one program into the input of the other — Biostar HandbookMany of these will be covered in Lesson 2.
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN A SPECIFIC BIOINFORMATICS PLATFORM, SOFTWARE, TOOL, TOPIC, OR SKILL? Email us at ncibtep@nih.gov.
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Announcements
Self-Learning
Dataquest and Coursera licenses are available!
BTEP Bioinformatics Resource pages
Uncertain what bioinformatics resources are available to CCR researchers? Check out our resource pages.
BTEP Coding Club
Introducing the BTEP Coding club, which features monthly1-hour tutorials of bioinformatics tools, software, or skills.
This month’s topic: V-lookup in excel and the R programming equivalent (February 15th)