Shell for Bioinformatics 3-day Workshop

IN-PERSON (Longwood Medical Area):

Tuesday, April 22, 2025: 9:30 AM - 12 PM

Friday, April 25, 2025: 9:30 AM - 12 PM

Tuesday, April 29, 2025: 9:30 AM - 12 PM

Instruction will be mostly learner-centric, requiring a time commitment between the workshop sessions!

Description:

Large-scale data analysis often requires use of high-performance computing (HPC) resources and knowledge of tools available via the command-line interface (also referred to as Unix or Linux or bash or shell).

In this 3-day hands-on workshop participants will learn the following:

• basic shell commands for navigating the file system, exploring file contents, performing basic operations, such as moving, copying, and renaming
• how to write shell scripts and use “for” loops for efficiently running the same commands on multiple files
• how to use HMS-RC’s O2 cluster for high-performance computing (HPC) - guest logins are provided

Together, this knowledge is critical for researchers looking to improve efficiency when performing computational tasks and it forms the foundation needed to analyze high-throughput sequencing data.