Overview

This workshop was offered via teleconference in August, 2021, through a collaboration by the UC Davis DataLab and the NIH Common Fund Data Ecosystem. Lesson materials and videos are linked below.

Introductory skills

Workshop 1: Introduction to the UNIX Command Line (video)

Workshop 2: Creating and modifying text files on remote computers (video)

Intermediate skills

Workshop 3: Connecting to remote computers with ssh (video)

Workshop 4: Running programs on remote computers and retrieving the results (video)

Workshop 5: Installing software on remote computers with conda (video)

Workshop 6: Structuring your projects for current and future you (video)

Workshop 7: Automating your analyses and executing long-running analyses on remote computers (video)

Workshop 8: Keeping track of your files with version control (video)

Advanced skills

Workshop 9: Automating your analyses with the snakemake workflow system (video)

Workshop 10: Executing large analyses on HPC clusters with slurm (video)

Workshop 11: Making use of on-demand “cloud” computers from Amazon Web Services (video)