| Buffalo |
Course book: Bioinformatics Data Skills (Buffalo 2015). |
| CLI |
Command-line Interface — a software interface in which one types commands (cf. “GUI”). |
| CSB |
Course book: Computing Skills for Biologists (Allesina & Wilmes 2019). |
| cluster |
Another word for supercomputer, a set of interconnected computers for high-performance computing |
| dir |
Short for “directory”, which how a folder is often referred to in the Unix shell and Linux. |
| Git |
Software for “version control”, a system to track changes in code and other text files, and collaborate on those. |
| GitHub |
A website that hosts Git projects, which are known as repositories. |
| GUI |
Graphical User Interface – a visual software interface with which one interacts by clicking (cf. “CLI”). |
| HPC |
High-Performance Computing, for instance as can be done using a supercomputer. |
| Linux |
The operating system that OSC runs on. Free Linux distributions include Ubuntu. |
| Markdown |
A simple text markup language (think LaTeX or HTML but much simpler). |
| OSC |
The Ohio Supercomputer Center. |
| shell |
The Unix shell is a command-line interface to the operating system that runs within a terminal. There are several shell flavors, and in this course, we will be working with the bash shell. |
| Nextflow |
Software for automated analysis workflow (pipeline) management. |
| Slurm |
Software that schedules “compute jobs” (access to the main parts of the system) at OSC. |
| Unix |
A family of operating systems that includes Mac and Linux, but not Windows. |