Thank you for joining us. Today, we are going to run through three exercises related to data visualization. To begin, open a Terminal session and enter the following commands:
#Change directories to your Desktop
cd Desktop
#Download workshop materials with wget
wget http://dbsloan.github.io/csb2017/csb2017.zip
#Unzip the workshop materials
unzip csb2017.zip
Alternatively, you can download the workshop materials directly from this link.
Now let’s enter a couple commands that will make things run more smoothly on the lab computers we are using for today’s workshop.
#This will give us an easily accessible link on the Desktop to run RStudio, which we will use in the first two exercises.
ln -s /usr/local/rstudio/bin/rstudio
#And this will add BLAST executables and Circos to your PATH, so you don't have to provide the full path each time you call the programs.
echo PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/circos/bin:/usr/local/blast/bin >> ~/.bashrc
#relaunch bash for the PATH updates to take effect
bash
Detailed documentation for each of three exerecises can be accessed with the following links.