Practicals for hands on sessions

Ivo Hofacker
2D structure, SHAPE probing

For Windows Users: Please install in advance Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). This can be installed from Windows app store. See this page for more details. Once installed, you can access a Linux subsystem by typing wsl in windows shell.

We will use jupyter notebook for the tutorial. We recommend to use conda to install jupyter and other dependencies.

1. Install conda or mamba. Download installer script from conda/mamba and execute it from command line. See this page for detailed instructions. Then run
    conda init

2. Set up conda channel, note that we need to prioritize Bioconda over conda-forge.
    conda config --add channels bioconda
    conda config --add channels conda-forge
    conda config --set channel_priority strict


3. Create an environment for AlgoSB and activate it. Here we preinstall python 3.12, you can change it according to other course (though we will need at least 3.11)
    conda create -n algosb25 python=3.12
    conda activate algosb25

4. Install all dependencies for the Monday course
    conda install numpy ipykernal jupyter pillow
    conda install viennarna

5. Install additional dependencies for the Friday course
    conda install infrared

The hands on assignment is available at:

https://github.com/ViennaRNA/ViennaRNA-Tutorial


Sebastian Will
RNA design

1. Download the assignment sheet:
    git clone https://gitlab.inria.fr/amibio/algosb-infrared.git

2. Install various dependencies through:
    conda create -n algosb_rnadesign 'viennarna=2.7' numba nunmpy scipy matplotlib pandas infrared


Kalli Kappel
Modeling RNA-protein interactions

Before the hands-on session on Tuesday, December 9, install Rosetta and PyMOL.

[Detailed instructions to install Draffter]

Downloading Rosetta

Download Rosetta 3.13: https://downloads.rosettacommons.org/downloads/academic/3.13/
(Free for academic users)If you are working on a Linux machine, download “Rosetta 3.13 source + binaries for Linux – as one bundle (18G)”
If you are working on a Mac, download “Rosetta 3.13 source + binaries for Mac – as one bundle (14G)”
These are big files, so the download may take a while.

Installing PyMOL

The educational license is free and suitable for our purposes. Download here: https://pymol.org/edu
Follow the installation instructions to install on your computer.


Liuba Mazzanti
Integrative RNA modeling: SAXS and MD simulations

Windows users: Please install Windows Subsystem for Linux as explained above, and use it to pretend you’re a perfectly normal Linux user.

Mac OS X user: Everything should be available/installable, as long as you
have XCode installed

Dependencies:

  • Fortran + C compilers (tested with gfortran + gcc)
  • Python + libraries: NumPy, MatplotLib, MDAnalysis
  • Chimera or VMD

A distribution of further software, analysis scripts and data needed for the tutorial can be downloaded from:

https://filesender.renater.fr/?s=download&token=ff5bc9ad-4160-4f01-8d9f-bf8f1f7d506d

and further instructions can be found within a README file in the 01-Code_GMIN_HiRE_SAXS subdirectory.


Magnus Marcin
From sequence to 3D structure

  • install PyMOL, if you can select install PyMOL 2.5
  • ⁠install rna-tools
    https://github.com/mmagnus/rna-tools
    (with pip install rna-tools), this include BioPython (hopefully this will go smoothly 😉 if not, then let Magnus know)