Basics

Before you can work on an HPC cluster, we need to get familiarised with the Linux environment.

Learning Objectives

• Know importand basic Bash commands.
  
• Be able to find help for terminal commands and applications in general.
  
• Learn to critically use available resources, such as posts or ChatGPT.
  
• Do reporduciable research by writing logs and/or even scripts.
  

Some sections of our annual Bioinformatics course, together with Ryan Chadwick's tutorials, will help you achieve this goal.

Basics

• Introduction to the Terminal
• Introduction to the Terminal 2
• More Bash
• Important aspects of Biocomputing
• Important aspects of Reproducible Research

More advanced

• Bash Scripting
• Linux tutorial

Useful papers

• Fifteen quick tips for success with HPC, i.e., responsibly BASHing that Linux cluster
• Ten simple rules for getting started with command-line bioinformatics
• Ten Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research