Virtual Machine

Before the beginning of the course, you will need to have an emulation of a linux OS (virtual machine) on your computer to be able to access all the data and software you will use during the practicals.

Technical: Participants should bring their own laptop (mininum 4GB RAM and 30 GB of free hard disk space) with R, Virtualbox software installed and the NGS_VM.ova virtual image deployed.

To this end, you first need to have virtualbox installed on your computer. Please download and install version the latest version of virtualbox. 

Then download the virtual image (.ova) here (Almost 9 GB file, it may take long to download) and import it into virtualbox (Around 30 min maximum). Then start the virtual image to check it works on your computer (password: user-SIB).

If at the end of the procedure, you are still not able to run the virtual machine, please contact us sufficiently in advance at training@isb-sib.ch as no technical problem with the virtual machine will be handled during the course.

Please also note that you need a computer with minimum of 4 GB memory. The virtual machine itself requires 3 GB memory. And at least 30 GB free space on your hard disk.