Laptops

Users are expected to bring a laptop with a functional wireless connection and a recent internet browser version (e.g. Firefox, Chrome or Safari) preinstalled. Tablet computers with mobile operating systems are not suitable for running the required software. If your laptop has special firewall settings (e.g. company owned laptops), then please make sure you know how to administer your firewall settings (e.g. lower restrictions or turn on/off) to allow biocLite installs.

Software Installs

In addition, please follow the software install instructions for this event as outlined below.

  1. Install latest R Version 3.3.1 from here: (http://www.r-project.org
  2. Next, install RStudio from here: http://rstudio.org
  3. IGV (Integrative Genomics Viewer) will be used for a short demonstration: http://www.broadinstitute.org/igv. This install is optional.

R Packages

To install the R/Bioconductor libraries required for this course module, please copy & paste the following commands into your RStudio (or the R) console and execute them with the enter key.

(1) Install of Bioconductor base packages

source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite()

(2) Check for correct R and Bioc versions

sessionInfo() # Note: this needs to return R Version 3.3.1!!
source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocVersion() # Note: this should return Bioc Version '3.3' or higher!!
# biocLite("BiocUpgrade") # Run this command if your Bioc version is outdated

(3) Install specific packages required for this course. Note, the install of the sample data (last line) may take some time.

source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
install.packages(c("ggplot2", "lattice", "ape", "gplots"))
biocLite(c("BiocStyle", "ggbio", "ShortRead", "Biostrings", "IRanges", "BSgenome", "rtracklayer", "Rsamtools", "GenomicRanges", "GenomicAlignments", "DESeq2", "edgeR", "AnnotationDbi", "Rsubread", "systemPipeR"))
biocLite("tgirke/systemPipeRdata", build_vignettes=TRUE, dependencies=TRUE)