Important Information

  1. Course URL: http://meetings.cshl.org/tgac/tgac
  2. You will have continuing access to the web site after the course.  This site will shortly be password-protected; you will be emailed the necessary information
  3. Computer log-in is genome, with no password
  4. Lunch is in the Woodbury cafeteria down the hall; dinner is at the main CSHL campus.  Your meals are included in the course
  5. You can take your computer to the main campus on the first evening if you wish to continue working.  You must sign these computers out (ask for a form if you are interested)
  6. Instructors will be available after dinner on the first evening to help those who wish to continue working
  7. During the course, you are welcome to substitute your sequences on any of the exercises; interesting results might not follow, however.
  8. If you need help, just ask!

A Quick Introduction to the PC

Ctrl is short for Control

  1. You can copy a sequence by highlighting it with the mouse and hitting Ctrl + c (that is, the Ctrl key and the c key at the same time)
  2. You can paste by hitting Ctrl + v
  3. Cutting and pasting can also be accomplished by going to the Edit menu in an application
  4. An instruction of the form Menu | Submenu | Command tells you to go to the Menu menu at the top of an application, select the Submenu option, and finally choose Command from the Submenu menu
  5. The PC has two mouse buttons.  Clicking the one on the right (a ‘right-click’) will open a contextual menu based on what you have selected
  6. If you have text highlighted, right-clicking will also allow you to cut and paste
  7. Ctrl + A will select all text in a text file, browser window, etc.  This is often easier than selecting the text with a mouse
  8. Ctrl + F, at least in Word and browsers, will open a Find dialog, allowing you to do keyword searches on long web pages, rather than scanning for what you want.
  9. Right-clicking on a link on a web page will open a menu with an option to Open in New Window; this allows you to keep the TGAC website open if you wish
  10. Another option in this menu is Save Target As ...  Select this option if you want to save a file to the desktop
  11. You can run Notepad (a text editor) by clicking the Start Menu in the bottom left hand corner of the desktop, selecting Run ..., and typing notepad.  Word is NOT a substitute for a text editor; you must make sure to save any files created in Word as Plain Text, or the will not work with the programs we will be using.

 

 

 

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