Part 1 of the "Accelerated intro to Computational Biology for Biologists" course for the Master's Programme in Computational Biology, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. This covers the first 2 days (~6 hours) of material, taught by Mark Wilkinson.
This is the basics of the basics, just to get you started!
Windows VMWare Player: https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/downloads/info/slug/desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_workstation_player/16_0 Mac VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/
You should download and unzip the Virtual Machine we have created for this course: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1La8Tr3OjuusEJZU270O3rWTJPjUW_iH7
WINDOWS: Start VMWare, and select "open virtual machine". Browse to the folder that you just unzipped. Double-click.
MAC: After unzipping, there is a file with the extension .vmdk. You need to start VirtualBox, then follow these instructions: Open VirtualBox and create a new virtual machine. Click the "Settings" button Click Storage Click SATA Controller Click Add Hard Disk Navigate to and double-click on the VDMK file. Click OK to save the setting. Now your virtual machine will be using the virtual hard disk I created for the course.
Once the virtual machine starts, your default password is 'osboxes.org'
Dear Students,
You will take this course using a VMWare Virtual Machine. You should do the following:
- CREATE AN ACCOUNT ON GitHub (this website) if you haven't already got one...
- Download VMWare Player (if you haven't already got it): https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/downloads/info/slug/desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_workstation_player/16_0
- You should download the VMWare Virtual Machine that I have created for this course, which is in this Zenodo deposit: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1La8Tr3OjuusEJZU270O3rWTJPjUW_iH7
- Unzip the virtual machine
- Start VMWare Player and select the virtual machine - start it (PASSWORD IS osboxes.org)
- In the top-right corner of the VM Desktop, you can select either US-style or Spanish-style keyboard
- Double Click on the "START HERE" icon on your desktop. after a few seconds your browser should open to the first lesson.