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As this tutorial is focused only on downloading interesting programs you may read about, this is the final step. If you do the optional trimmomatic tutorial later in the course, we'll go over some of the nuances of trimmomatic and shortcuts to make it easier to use. This page will be updated to include a link to said tutorial later in the week.
wget alternative
It is always an alternative to download such files directly to your computer using a web browser and then use the scp command to transfer it to TACC. The wget command can help you avoid these intermediate steps and is more convenient most of the time unless you want to install the program on both your laptop and TACC, and have the same operating system on both.
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