8.1 Introduction

Galaxy is a free, relatively easy to use bioinformatics implementation package. It changes command line programs into GUI based programs.

8.1.1 Before You Start

Make sure you have an AnVIL account (refer to https://jhudatascience.org/AnVIL_Book_Instructor_Guide/student-account-setup.html)

8.1.2 Objectives

This activity will teach you how to use the AnVIL platform to:

  1. Get started working on AnVIL
  2. Launch the Galaxy tool
  3. Import data into the Galaxy tool
  4. Examine fastq sequence data files
  5. Align sequence data to a reference genome
  6. View the aligned data and reference genomes interactively
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