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Author: rknx

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 <p>
-  To-do: General background about the course.
+  High-throughput sequencing technologies have significantly improved the generation of 
+  large data sets of omics information (genomes, transcriptomes, proteomics and microbiomes). 
+  Administration and analysis of big data in the omics-era to understand 
+  complex biological systems present a new challenge for plant pathologists. 
+  Analysis of big and complex data sets requires use of computational tools 
+  that interact with databases and computer servers. 
+  The command line interface allows users to interact with computers both locally 
+  and in server to conduct computationally intensive analyses. 
+  In this workshop, we will explore different usages of command line interface for bioinformatic analyses. 
+  We will introduce the cluster computing system, Linux shell, and shell scripting. 
+  We will use unix commands to parse sequence and text files followed by 
+  application of local BLAST and data parsing. Different genome data analyses using 
+  command line interface will be discussed.
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+<p id="requirements">
+    <strong>Requirements:</strong>
+    Participants must bring a laptop with Windows, MacOS or Linux operating system 
+    (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. 
+    They should have a few specific software packages installed 
+    (listed <a href="setup.html">here</a>). 
+    The organizers will share extensive pre- and post- meeting support materials 
+    including the codes, coding references, datasets, reading materials, 
+    and respective examples to the participants via a github webpage 
+    that can be accessed at any time after the conference also.
+  </p>

_includes/intro/who.html

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 <p id="who">
   <strong>Who:</strong>
-  The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers.
+  Plant pathologists interested to apply computational tools for 
+  analyzing high-throughput sequencing data using cluster computers.
   <strong>
-    You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools
-    that will be presented at the workshop.
+    Participants are expected to have some idea about genomic data, 
+    sequencing platforms, and general terminologies commonly used in 
+    bioinformatics such as assembly, annotation, sequencing platforms, 
+    fastq, fasta, etc. No technical proficiency is expected.
   </strong>
 </p>