Tech Help

Installing Additional Software

In addition to the pre-installed software tools and built-in apps that come with your workspace, you can self-install other tools for analysis in your workspace VM. 

Approved External Software Tools

See a full list of additional tools approved for workspace use, along with their installation instructions, below. ✅❌

Approved Tools

Preinstalled in DSVM - Windows

Preinstalled in DSVM - Linux

Installation Instructions

Video installation tutorial

If nowhere, how to install?

Anaconda Python

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Annovar




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Apache Spark 3.1 (standalone)

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AzCopy


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Azure CLI

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Azure Cosmos DB Data Migration Tool


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Azure SDK

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Azure Storage Explorer

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BCFtools



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Bedtools




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Bioconductor + DESeq2 




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Blob FUSE driver



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BWA-MEM



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Redistributable, standalone installer, added the BWA installer to the t-drive. Installing BWA comes with BWA-MEM included as it (BWA-MEM) is an algorithm of BWA. Installation instructions are very simple here: https://github.com/lh3/bwa#availability. Only dependency required is zlib, likely already installed in the VM. If not, use: sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev and then proceed with BWA installation.

CatBoost


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CellSNP




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CRAN-R

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Cromwell



Here

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CUDA, cuDNN, NVIDIA Driver

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Database GUIs



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Dlib


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Docker



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edgeR

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This is an R package. User can simply install this package directly into an R session in the command terminal as long as R is installed. Specific installation instructions can be found here: https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/edgeR.html

Emacs


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FreeSurfer




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GATK




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GCTA




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Git (and Git Bash)

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GitLab



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H2O


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Horovod


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IBM SPSS Statistics



Here

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Intel MKL


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IntelliJ IDEA


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Julia (Julialang)

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Jupyter Notebook Server

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JupyterHub


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JupyterLab

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Kallisto



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Redistributable, standalone installer, added to t-drive for Linux and Windows

LibreOffice



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LightGBM


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MAGeCK




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Matlab



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Users to directly download the MatLab installer from within the VM, the matlab site (https://www.mathworks.com/) has been whitelisted hub-wide.

MFlow R API



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Microsoft Edge Browser

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MRIcron




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Nano


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Nccl


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Node.js

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Notepad++


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NVidia-smi

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ONNX Runtime


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OpenCV


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OpenJDK

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PLINK



Here

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PLINK 1.9




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PLINK 2.0



Here

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PostgreSQL


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Power BI Desktop


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PyCharm 

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Python SDK

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PyTorch

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Rattle



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RStudio



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Salmon



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Redistributable, standalone installer, added to t-drive for Linux (Windows installer doesn't exist). It can also be installed without the installer in the command terminal using conda, instructions here: https://combine-lab.github.io/salmon/getting_started/

Samtools




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SAS



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Scanpy



Here

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Sleuth

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This is an R package. User can simply install this package directly into an R session in the command terminal as long as R is installed. Prior to installation, user must first install the R packages "rhdf5" and "devtools" in this order, and then install "sleuth". Specific installation instructions can be found here: https://pachterlab.github.io/sleuth/download.html

STAR



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Redistributable, standalone installer, added to t-drive for Linux (Windows installer doesn't exist). Compiling/installation instructions here: https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR/blob/master/README.md

Sublime Text



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SUPPA2

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Not a standalone installer, can simply be installed using python in a command terminal. Requires python 3. Simply open up a terminal and type: "pip install SUPPA==2.3", or can use conda, as such: "conda install -c bioconda suppa". Instructions here: https://github.com/comprna/SUPPA

TensorFlow

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TXimport

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This is an R package. User can simply install this package directly into an R session in the command terminal as long as R is installed. Is possible that the BiocManager package may need to be installed first. This can also be installed in the R session, no standalone installer necessary.

Unix/Linux command-line tools


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Upgrading Python




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VCFTools



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A package that can be installed directly in the command terminal using "sudo apt-get install vcftools"

Vim


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VireoSNP




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Vowpal Wabbit

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Weka



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XGBoost

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.NET Framework


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