Introduction to Scientific Computing for Biologists

- a Toolbox -

by Stefano Allesina & Madlen Wilmes

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Content

This repository contains the material needed for the exercises, the solutions to the exercises, and detailed instructions for the installation of the software.

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Downloading

To download the repository, you have two options:

1. Download the zip file. Click here, open the zip file, and extract it to your home directory (/home/yourname in Linux; /users/yourname in OSX; for Windows, choose C:\Users\yourname). To make it simpler to follow the text, rename the directory to ISC (you should have ISC-master by default). Every time you want to update the files to the latest version, you will need to download the zip again.

2. Clone the repository. If you have installed git, you can clone the repository by opening a terminal (in Linux Ubuntu press CTRL+ALT+T; in OSX find the Terminal Application in Spotlight; if you are using Windows, first install Git (instructions are here), then open the Git Bash application), then change directory to your home, and clone the repository:

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/StefanoAllesina/ISC.git

To update all the files in the repository, run:

cd ~/ISC
git pull