Why you shouldn’t postpone learning how to use Conda

I was recently a teaching assistant for 2018 PSU Bootcamp on Reproducible Research where I gave a workshop on how to use Conda. Here are my slides. While preparing for this workshop, I came across this wonderful blog post that represents a wonderful introduction to Conda. Before I read it, all was very confusing: conda, bioconda, miniconda, anaconda.. how many condas are even out there? But this post not only helped, but motivated me to really start using conda in everyday life. Bioinformatics can be a dependency nightmare, but all these condas definitely make one’s life much easier!