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- Anna Battenhouse, Associate Research Scientist, abattenhouse@utexas.edu
- BA English literature, 1978, Carleton College
- Commercial software development 1982 – 2007
- Texas Instruments, Motorola ...
- lots of software development experience but limited Unix/Linux
- Joined Vishwanath Iyer Lab 2007 (functional genomics)
- “retirement career”
- began to appreciate Linux & bash (slowly)
- BS Biochemistry, 2013, UT
- Current affiliations:
- Manager, Biomedical Research Computing Facility (BRCF)
- member, Bioinformatics Consulting Group (BCG)
- member, Marcotte lab (systems biology/proteomics)
The Biomedical Research Computing Facility (BRCF) and the Bioinformatics Consulting Group (BCG) are CBRS core facilities that support local research computing.
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Why not use a program with a GUI (Graphical User Interface) instead?
- Programming involves writing files anyway, and is constrained by the language environment used
- Using the command line lets you be very precise and flexible at the same time
- After the initial learning curve (which is non-trivial!!) the command line can be easier – and faster!
- And you can easily test your command line "mini-scripts" as you develop them
- You can easily work on remote computers from your laptop, as we'll do in this class
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With your studentNN account you can ssh into one of the following servers:
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If you're attending remotely and do not have access to the UT VPN, you can use the Terminal functionality in the RStudio web application.
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