This workshop is designed to prepare a biologist to work in an interactive Linux environment of our BioHPC Lab workstations.  We will then cover basics of Linux operating system, needed to operate the workstations. In particular the topics will include: 

• Navigating a Linux workstation: logging in and out of a Linuix machine, directory structure, basic commands for dealing with files and directories
• Working with text files
• Transfer of files to and from a Linux workstation
• Basics of running applications on Linux
• Using multiple CPUs/cores: parallel applications
• Basics of shell scripting