Resources

You may find this list of resources helpful:

• To learn how to run our 16S rRNA pipeline you can visit our previously presented workshop material (which covers both preprocessing of sequences on the UCT cluster and downstream analyses in R).
• To learn basic Unix command line:
  • http://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/02-filedir/
• To learn R: 

  • http://www.datacarpentry.org/R-ecology-lesson/index.html

  • http://tryr.codeschool.com/

  • http://swcarpentry.github.io/r-novice-inflammation/

• To apply for a user account on UCT's High Performance Computing Cluster

  • If you are UCT staff/student: http://hpc.uct.ac.za/index.php/apply-for-hpc/

  • If you are not a UCT staff or student yet need to use UCT resources while they are undertaking official business at UCT: http://www.icts.uct.ac.za/third-party-system-start

• Miscellaneous recommended tools:

  • Sequence alignment and analysis: BioEdit is a mouse-driven, easy-to-use sequence alignment editor and sequence analysis program. Download it here or directly from the site.