Screen, a Bioinformaticians Best Friend Screen is very likely the best way to keep things running in the terminal servers that you connect to. While dropping things into the background and booting them off with nohup so that they ignore the Sig Hup signal is an option, it isn’t as clean as screen and it isn’t so easy to just pick up where you left off, for instance, if you had something open in a text editor.

Using the GWAS Catalog Finding Bipolar Related SNPs Today we will be using the GWAS Catalog to identify SNPs (Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms) that are associated with Bipolar Disorder. Sure, there is an interactive search on the page, but let’s do this locally. Navigate to the downloadable files by first clicking the ‘Download’ link on the main page, and then ‘Files’ link, you should be here: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/docs/file-downloads The main file to get is All associations v1.