Project directories

For large datasets, we recommend to not to store them in your home as the disc space there is rather limited. Such data should be stored in the shared disc space. It has significantly more space than the home directory and can also be accessed by all users, making it especially suited for projects involving multiple people and you don't have to open your home directory for reading and writing to other people. However, these directories are typically not backed up, so once you delete something, it is lost forever. You can access these directories via the path

/share/project/

For each course, we have a different subdirectory, e.g. /share/project/pbioc_basics. Just ask your tutor which subdirectory to use. You can create a new folder there. As this space can be accessed by anyone in the course, it is best to name the folder after yourself. It is then easy to see who created it and who is maintaining its contents.

We have pre-installed a number of programs that we will use during our analyses under

/share/applications/

Note, that you have no write permissions in this directory.