Setting up your coding environment to manage bioinformatics projects cleanly.

Author: Rana Sabry

For Windows 10+ WSL or Unix Operating system

First, go to the website and choose the version that suits your operating system https://docs.anaconda.com/free/miniconda/

Right click on the desired version and copy the link

• Open terminal
• Use wget command to download the file in your terminal:

$ wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh        

• Wait for the download to be done
• Use ls command to list the files in your directory to see the script which we just downloaded
• Run the file using sh

$ sh Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh        

• Press Enter and follow the steps
• Wait for the run to finish

• Add conda to path

$ export PATH=~/anaconda3/bin:$PATH
$ conda --version        

You should get an output like this:

For a guided and mentored tour of how to use conda for managing software tools, and using them for downstream data analysis in #bioinformatics, data analysis and healthcare, visit our Foundation in NGS course (https://thehackbio.com/courses/25).