Welcome to Computational Techniques for Life Sciences

Please log in to the WiFi (see handout), then log in to the Lonestar5 cluster. Follow the instructions for your operating system below.

Mac / Linux:

  Open the application 'Terminal'
  ssh username@ls5.tacc.utexas.edu 
  (enter password)
  (enter 6-digit token)

Windows:

  Open the application 'PuTTY'
  enter Host Name: ls5.tacc.utexas.edu
  (click 'Open')
  (enter username)
  (enter password)
  (enter 6-digit token)

Provide attendees the basic skills needed to:

Execute life sciences workflows on large-scale systems
Run parallel analyses
Use Bash/Python/Perl to chain common life sciences applications together to form more complex workflows
Analyze and visualize result data in order to gain useful insights

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