Welcome page

On this website you will find a short tutorial that will explain how to use bash and connect and work with an HPC.

On the first pages you will get some introduction into setting up a terminal and documenting your code. Afterwards, the actual tutorial will begin, in which you will assume the role of a researcher who received data from a sequencing center and wants to start analysing this data using the command line interface. This tutorial is divided into two main parts:

  1. In the first section, you will learn how to organize, view and extract information from your data using bash and the command line interface
  2. In the second section, you will learn how to work with data on an HPC. Therefore, you will learn how to connect to an HPC, upload your sequencing data and submit a job in order to assess the quality of your sequencing data

This tutorial was written for researchers at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) at the University of Amsterdam who can get access to Crunchomics, the Genomics Compute Environment for SILS and IBED. For researchers that do not have access to Crunchomics, or another slurm-based HPC, then you still can follow most sections of this tutorial on your own computer if you are interested in learning about bash.

For information not covered in this tutorial, check out IBED’s bioinformatics guidance page.