Natalie Gill

Bioinformatician II

Knowing how to use the command line of your computer can save you a lot of time. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to navigate the Unix terminal.

For this workshop, you’ll need a Mac or Linux laptop (you can use Windows if you can’t access a Linux machine).

In this course, you’ll learn:

• File manipulation (ls, pwd, mv, mkdir, cat, sort, uniq)
• File system (which, df, du)
• Slicing text files (cut, head, tail, split, column)
• Compression/decompression (tar, gzip, zcat, zless)
• Other helpful commands (date, echo, alias)
• System variables ($HOME, $PWD, $USER)

Novice: This is an introductory workshop in the Computer Skills series. No prior experience required. There are no prerequisites.

Visit the workshop site for more details and materials.

Tailored Training Sessions on Publishing Your Code with GitHub

Maximize the impact of your research by mastering GitHub with Gladstone’s Bioinformatics Core training. The team of experts will help you easily share your code, collaborate with colleagues, publish a function or library, build a website, and more. The core can tailor a training session to meet your lab’s specific needs and bring your research to the next level. Reach out to the core to learn more or set up a training session.