Downloading and installing Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV)

1. Go to the IGV Board Institute website.
2. Click on Downloads and select the download package according to your OS:

For Windows OS:

1. Download the Windows package and execute the self-extracting archive. Save to your preferred location.
2. To run the software, open the extracted folder and double-click on the file 'igv.bat'

For Mac OS:

1. Download and unzip the Mac App archive, then double-click the IGV application to run it
2. The application can be moved to a folder of your choice.

For Linux OS:

1. Download and unzip the binary distribution archive in your preferred folder.
2. Launch IGV using the shell script 'igv.sh'
   
   

Downloading and installing RStudio

RStudio requires the R statistical package to be installed prior to use.

To install the latest version of R, follow the installation guidelines by following the links below:
For Windows OS: cran.rstudio.com
For Mac OS: cran.rstudio.com/bin/macosx
For Linux OS: cran.rstudio.com

Once R has installed, download and install RStudio Desktop (free) for your operating system either using the download links from RStudio website.

or

by using the following direct download links:

Windows Vista/7/8/10 OS
Mac 10.6+

Downloading and installing SSHFS

Overview of SSHFS installation

Direct installation links:

For Windows OS:

Copy and paste the following link in the address bar:
https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive%20downloads/v2/code.google.com/win-sshfs/win-sshfs-0.0.1.5-setup.exe 

For Mac OS (10.5 or later):
https://github.com/osxfuse/sshfs/releases/download/osxfuse-sshfs-2.5.0/sshfs-2.5.0.pkg

For Ubuntu/Debian OS: In the command line, enter the following: sudo apt-get install sshfs