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Department of Quantitative Health Sciences
Mayo Clinic Research
Formerly known as the Department of Health Sciences Research

Related links: Division Overview R Shiny Applications

Variant Miner – Virtual Box Install Instructions

  1. Download and install a Virtual Box platform package from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads for your specific operating system.
  2. Launch Virtual Box
  3. Configure Virtual Box Network
    1. Goto the Preferences menu
    2. Goto the Network tab and then Host-only Networks subtab
    3. Press Add Host Only Network button. You should see vboxnet0 show up in the window.
    4. Select the screwdriver to see the assigned IP address. Please note this: it will be needed in later steps.
    5. Press OK to close the preferences window.
  4. Download the Virtual Box Appliance file to your computer’s hard drive:

  5. Import Virtual Box Appliance
    1. Goto the Import menu
    2. Choose the Appliance File (has .ova file extension)
    3. Take default settings and press Import
  6. Start the appliance. You will see a terminal open as the appliance OS boots. The Appliance is ready when you see the screen shown below. You may minimize this window.
  7. Launch the VCF-Miner web interface by going to http://192.168.56.1:8888/vcf-miner/ (please substitute the IP address you noted in step 3d above).
  8. The default login on a local install is username “Admin”, password “temppass”.
  9. For info on how to change this password (this should certainly be changed if installed on a shared server for multiple users), or for errors or user configuration see Login and User Configuration

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