Interactive bioinformatics tutorials

Sandbox.bio is a free platform for bioinformatics command-line tutorials created by Robert Aboukhalil. It was set up by compiling bioinformatics command-line tools in WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) so that they could be run in the browser. The French Bioinformatics Institute hosts an instance of this platform at the initiative of its e-learning working group, with the aim of meeting the needs of the French community. All the educational content has been created and made available by this working group. All feedback is welcome.

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Tutorials

Linux basics
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unix shell terminal
Basics of the Unix command line interface

IFB Scenario 1

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Unix file system

IFB Scenario 2

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Manipulating files and directories

IFB Scenario 3

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Combining bash commands

IFB Scenario 4

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Learning a new bioinformatics tool

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Playgrounds

command line terminal bash

Command Line

Command line for open-ended exploration

awk

Awk

Filter and wrangle tabular data

jq json

Jq

Filter and wrangle JSON data

grep regex

Grep

Search and filter utility

sed regex

Sed

Search and replace utility