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Before next class:

What most biologists probably don't know about computers (57:39)

• Setting up your Linux account

• Customizing your Xfce Desktop

• Unix Tutorial for Beginners (Duke University), Tutorials 1-6, 8

• Quick introduction to reading Unix/Linux manual pages

B. Linux Key Concepts

Research in a networked environment The nature of genomics demands a shift from PC-based computing to network-centric computing. Network-centric computing means that more and more of the data and computing stays on servers, and less work is actually done on personal computers. The PC becomes a terminal for working with network-based resources. This old concept has recently been referred to by the term "Cloud Computing". (Figure from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cloud_computing.svg) This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

• Web apps in a browser are awkward, compared to a comprehensive bioinformatics system
• Linux lends itself to building institution-wide informatics solutions
  
• Most genomics projects are collaborative.
  
• enormous datasets
• centralized databases
• easier access to high performance computing
• better data integrity and security
• uniform data standards
  

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