Tool access

Signing up for an AWS account

1. Go to http://aws.amazon.com, and then click Sign Up.
2. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Note: Part of the sign-up procedure involves receiving a phone call and entering a PIN using the phone keypad.

Access to the tools during hackathon

to be completed...

• The IT infrastructure necessary to develop and test code quickly (hack without looking back)

The following items will be documented very shortly
(Note that order may change:)

• Using the NMDP-developed AMI
• Installing the software on your own system
• finding the data on the AMI
• logging into the NMDP-provided instance
• requesting an account on the NMDP-provided instance
• tools included on the AMI, and NMDP-provided instance

Tools included on the AMI (and on the NMDP-provided instance)

• standard Linux system tools, including wget, curl, emacs, vim
• source control manipulation tools: git, subversion
• java development tools: openjdk 1.7, maven
• pipeline related tools: nmdp-ngs-tools, SSAKE, bwa, samtools, gl-tools, blat, sra-toolkit
• misc tools: groovy