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Downloading Your Data

2017 Workshop on Genomics

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You’ll Need to Have Filezilla Installed on Your PC

Go to https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1

Download the appropriate version for your computer

Install the software and open

Other similar software exisits - WinSCP (Windows only) and Fugu (OS X only)

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Click on the “New Session” icon in the top left hand corner

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The host is the public DNS number from Amazon EC2

Protocol needs to be SFTP

User is genomics

Password is evomics2017

Finally click Connect

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If you see this warning message, click OK

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THIS IS YOUR COMPUTER

THIS IS YOUR AMAZON INSTANCE

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Transferring Files

You can navigate through the file system on both your computer and the Amazon instance by clicking on the folder structure.

To copy a file from the Amazon instance to your computer, drag and drop!

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Using Amazon EC2 in the Future

You’ll need to create your own Amazon Web Services account. This will require a credit card number as compute usage is charged.

The AMI is available publically, just search for “ami-a22accb4” in “Community AMIs”

Instructions for creating an (almost) identical AMI are available from Guy’s GitHub account - https://github.com/guyleonard/evomics_2017