Computer Setup

Warning You will need at least 50GB of free disk space on your laptop for this part of the workshop!

Note You should install both Docker and VS Code on your laptops BEFORE you travel to SMBE. We advise you to do these setup steps while at your home institution.

We will be using Docker for this workshop. Docker allows us to create environments that contain all of the software required to work with EnsemblLite and cogent3, isolated from the rest of your computers specific setup.

We will be using Visual Studio code (VS Code). VS Code is a free, open source, cross platform code editor that is available for MacOS, Windows, and Linux. It can run Jupyter notebooks and provides an excellent interface to interacting with Docker virtual machines.

We will be using VS Code to deploy and manage our isolated environment, as well as providing the terminal interface to EnsemblLite and Jupyter notebook notebook experience for interactive analyses.

To install these and get them ready for the workshop follow the steps in configuring your environment.