Workshop: Intermediate Shell for Bioinformatics
On 16 April 2025, NeSI and Genomics Aotearoa will be hosting an online workshop on Intermediate Shell for Bioinformatics. The workshop will be taught online from 10:00am-4:00pm NZT and we welcome interest from New Zealand based researchers interested in progressing their abilities with Shell.
This workshop will cover:
- An overview of the Shell, UNIX and Linux.
- Downloading data from a remote source and checking data integrity.
- Recap navigating files and directories, and commands used in routine tasks.
- Inspecting and manipulating data, part 1 (the head, less, grep, and sed commands).
- Inspecting and manipulating data, part 2 (using awk and bioawk to process text).
- Automating file processing.
- Challenges: solve example molecular biology problems using shell scripts.
This workshop assumes some familiarity with Shell. You will need to be able to do the following tasks via command line:
- Navigating files and directories.
- An understanding on full versus relative paths.
- Working with files and directories (examining files, creating, copying, moving and removing).
- Use a command line-based text editor such as nano.
And have a basic understanding of:
- File/directory permission in Linux.
- For loops (preferred, not required).
If you lack the above skills, please wait until you have completed an Introduction to Shell workshop with us (or an equivalent) before registering.
Setup
This is a fully online, hands-on workshop. The workshop material will be run on the NeSI High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms - there is no need to install any software for this workshop. Instructions on how to access the NeSI HPC service will be sent out with the confirmation letter to registrants.
You can view the workshop material, including the objectives and content here.
Participants must have their own machine to work on and plan to participate actively in the workshop. You will require a working web browser.
Please reach out to us here if you have any questions about this event.
