Colab

Google Colab¶

You may already know about Jupyter and how to use it. For this course, students are encouraged to use Google's Colab cloud platform to perform analysis of scRNA-seq data. This platform allows users to run analyses on the cloud for free using Jupyter. But, you need a Google account to do so.

1. Please create a Google account, if you do not already have one.

2. Log in to your Google account, if you are not already logged in.

3. Test your access to Google Colab. You should see a screen like the following:

Screenshot of Colab diaglog box

4. Create a new notebook. If you see the dialog shown above, then click 'create notebook'. You can also create a notebook using the Menu at the top of the page: File -> New notebook in Drive. Either will result in the launching of a new Jupyter notebook.

5. The End. You are done and can close the browser page on Colab.