Getting Started

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1. Introduction

There are three options to set up a Biocellion environment.

  1. Download Biocellion VirtualBox Disk Image (.vdi) and run on VirtualBox
  2. Setup Google Cloud and copy the Virtual Image Instance
  3. Directly download Biocellion from Biocellion.com and set up your own environment

If you are a new user who wants to try out Biocellion, you may want to choose option 1. The VirtualBox Disk Image has all the necessary softwares and environment preset to easily get started on Biocellion. However, this option may suffer from slower performance, and high memory usage. The VirtualBox Disk Image is about 3GB in size compressed, and 8 GB in size uncompressed.

If you are a competent *nix language user and wish to set up Biocellion on the cloud, you may choose option 2. Google Cloud currently offers 2 months of free trial, and $300 credit for up to 8 virtualCPUs of compute power. This may be a desirable option if you wish to take advantage of Biocellion’s multi-threading capability. The Google Cloud option does not come with Paraview as it does in option 1.

Finally, you may choose to set up Biocellion locally by simply downloading from Biocellion.com You would need to separately download Intel Threading Building Blocks 4.4 and optionally, Paraview. Additionally, several local directory paths would have to be preconfigured before running Biocellion.

Option 1: Download Biocellion VirtualBox Disk Image and Run on VirtualBox

  1. If you have not done so already, download and install the appropriate version of VirtualBox for your OS.
  2. Download and unzip Biocellion VirtualBox Disk Image (.vid).
  3. Create a new virtual machine by clicking from the menu, Machine > New.
  4. Name your virtual machine, select ‘Linux’ for Type, and ‘Ubuntu (64-bit). Continue.