CompBio Lab Notebook Workshop

We will use a combination of git and Atom. The idea is to use Atom to create lab notebooks (Markdown files) and git for version control.

Installing Git

It is possible that git is already installed on your computer. To check if it is, go to your terminal or command line and type in the following

git --version

If you don't get an error, you are golden.

If you do get an error, please go to this link and install git on your computer.

Installing Atom

Atom is an open source code ditor (developed by GitHub) with built-in support for Git and GitHub. It has handy packages which make Markdown creation and editing quite easy.

You can install it directly from their website.

Agenda

1. What are the important features for a lab (wet/dry) notebook?

2. What are some unique requirements for a bioinformatics lab notebook?

3. My previous attempts at a bioinformatics lab notebook

4. Using markdown and Atom for creating a bioinformatics lab notebook

5. Using Git for Version Control

6. What is this missing? Can it have the "reproducible" descriptor?