Adventures in MySQL

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Terminal-- commandline on Mac OS X. Using the computer and programs more directly through coding rather than mouse clicks. Lots of programs we might use for bioinformatics can be used via commandline or GUI, and some are commandline only. There are cheatsheets and tutorials all over the internet, here's one [1]. Mac OS X is built on the Unix platform, the same as Linux, and many of the commands etc will work for OSX/Linux but might be different for Windows OS.

Some super basic and useful Terminal commands: typing


Homebrew: [2] From their website "What does Homebrew do? Homebrew installs the stuff you need that Apple didn’t." It is a package manager and installer for a whole slew of things we might want to use for bioinformatics. Super friendly install