Abel Thomas

4/4/2019

Purpose/Objective:

The purpose of this lab was to learn commands for terminal and helped download Qiime. Qiime will be used to analyze DNA sequences.

Procedure:

1. Open terminal on the Mac computer. Dell computers do not work
2. Download the files needed for Qiime using the intial code from the Qiime website
3. Download miniconda 64 bit (pkg) folder from the proper website
4. To let conda update you must type “ conda update conda” into the terminal, this will get you the right version
5. Type “conda install wget” into terminal to allow it to properly install on the mac
6. The next command we used in terminal is “wget https://data.qiime2.org/distro/core/qiime2-2019.1-py36-osx-conda.yml conda env create -n qiime2-2019.1 –file qiime2-2019.1-py36-osx-conda.yml” this helps download the qiime properly
7. Allow for the downloads to take place, wait for the program to download
8. Use the program to view images for the lab.

Commands:

Learned how to have the computer say something back to you “say + words”

how to look through my directory “cd desktop” will show everything that is on your desktop

how to grab something use wget “wget Applications” will bring you all the files in your Applications file

“conda update conda” will update conda so it fits in your terminal

“Source activate qiime2-2019.1” makes your qiime work properly

Conclusion:

We were able to download qiime onto the Mac as well learning to understand more about the Terminal and how to use commands to browse through our computers. We were able to start up qiime and start running it so we will be able to use it for the upcoming weeks. The terminal ran through the commands that we copied and put into it so qiime will be operational.