README.md

Bioinformatics with Python

Exercises for the "Bioinformatics with Python" module at the 2024 Advanced Sequencing Technologies and Applications course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories.

Installation

Installation Prerequisites

Install prerequisite software using the following commands in ubuntu:

sudo apt update; sudo apt install build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev \
libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev curl git \
libncursesw5-dev xz-utils tk-dev libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev libffi-dev liblzma-dev

Install pyenv

Once these commands are complete, run:

curl https://pyenv.run | bash

Configure environment variables

echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'command -v pyenv >/dev/null || export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc