New schedule

Session 1, 90mins., before morning coffee

Introduction (15mins)

• Main and support instructors
• Each participant
• Aims and scope
• Challenges of bioinformatics and genomics

History of Unix (30mins)

• First 5 minutes of time sharing footage
• The personal computer and how Unix did not arise from it, but other systems did
• How Unix history has shaped its character
• How this nature might help meet current challenges

Accessing terminal (15mins)

• Logging on to Windows with University ID
• Finding PuTTY (locally or through Apps Anywhere)

Procedure for PuTTY

• Server 138.251.13.131 or marvin.st-andrews.ac.uk, port 22, SSH.
• Terminal keyboard: VT100+
• Connection | Data | Auto-login username: <username>
• Saved session: enter any chosen name, save
• "Connect"
• PuTTY Security Alert "The server's host key is not cached in the registry": click "yes"
• Once in, type "fortune" to see if keyboard is OK.
• First operation will be ... to get out again! Type "exit" or "logout"
• This gets us back to Windows
• Also logout of Windows (Apps Anywhere also seems to have a logout procedure)
• Then repeat the entire procedure

Session 2, 90mins., 11am to 12:30

• The first part of course runthough. It's likely this will spill over into Session 3

Session 3, 90mins., 13:30 to 15:00

• Spill over from Course Runthrough (30 mins)
• This part will be anchored by a Vim presentation

Session 4, 90mins., 15:30 to 17:00

• This is for advanced tools: mostly about awk and bioawk. Using various file formats.