Preparation

before November 8th, 2023

Dominik Brilhaus, CEPLAS Data Science

Checklist hands-on sessions

💡 Please prepare the following before the class:

  • ✅ Register at DataPLANT
  • ✅ Find your command line
  • ✅ Install and configure Git on your computer
  • ✅ Install ARC Commander on your computer
  • ✅ Install ARCitect on your computer
  • ✅ Install Swate on your computer
  • ✅ (optional) Install VS Code

DataPLANT Registration

If you do not have a DataPLANT account, please register at the DataPLANT website.

Role and consortium

Please add your Project/consortium (e.g. CEPLAS) and choose the role Guest

The command line

Find the command-line interface (CLI) on your system.

  • On Windows: Enter powershell into the explorer path
  • On MacOS: Search terminal via spotlight (⌘ + ␣) or navigate to Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal

💡 In our tutorials we sometimes use terminal, command-line interface (CLI) and powershell interchangeably.

Git Installation

Please install Git and Git LFS on your system

💡 Git LFS may already be installed with your Git installation (at least on Windows)

💡 For macOS we recommend to install via homebrew as described on the site above

Configuration of Git

Check the git user configuration on your system, by executing

git config --global --get-regexp user

This should prompt two lines
user.name <Your Name>
user.email <Your Email>

💡 Configuration needs to be done once after installation of git on your system.

Git configuration

Set the git user configuration on your system, by executing

  1. Your name
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
  1. Your email address
git config --global user.email "Your Email"

ARC Commander Installation

Please install the latest version of the ARC Commander and dependencies for your operating system according to the manual's setup instructions.

Check if the ARC Commander is functional by displaying the ARC Commander version and help menu:

arc --version

ARCitect Installation

Please follow the instructions to install the latest version of ARCitect.

Swate Installation

Please follow these instructions to install the latest version of Swate.

Have a simple text editor ready

  • Windows Notepad
  • MacOS TextEdit

Recommended text editor with code highlighting, git support, terminal, etc: Visual Studio Code

Resources

DataPLANT (nfdi4plants)

Website: https://nfdi4plants.org/
Knowledge Base: https://nfdi4plants.org/nfdi4plants.knowledgebase/
DataHUB: https://git.nfdi4plants.org
GitHub: https://github.com/nfdi4plants