Overview

This course provides instructions for the setup of your personal MacOS computer for participants on the OBDS Training Programme, prior to and during the OBDS course.

User accounts

During the course you will need user accounts:

• on the CGAT compute cluster (you will receive login credentials by email the week before the course)
• on Github

Software

There are a several different software packages required on your local computer for the course. You might already have some of these installed, so only install those that you do not have already. In some cases, a specific version or a minimal version is required; in those cases make sure that the version that you have installed matches the stated requirements.

We also provide instructions to test and confirm that each software was installed successfully. Please follow those instructions as well. If you run into any issue that is not described in those instructions, please contact us with as much details as possible (e.g., copy paste any error message or screenshot of the issue, and describe what you did to get there).