Mantle Notebooks run in the cloud, so you don’t have to worry about occupying your computer’s resources (like storage, RAM, CPUs or GPUs) or installing any software on your own computer. This guide provides information on the hardware and preinstalled packages that come with every notebook, as well as instructions for customizing your environment.

Hardware

Compute2 CPU
Memory4 GB
GPUAvailable on request
Storage10 GB
Internet access        Yes

Please contact us if this configuration does not suit your needs.

Preconfigured packages

To help you get started fast, all Mantle Notebooks come with the following kernels:

Default kernel

For general purpose biological data analysis

  • Python 3.12

cytoflow kernel

For analysis of flow cytometry data using the cytoflow package

  • Python 3.11.6

Adding packages

You can install additional packages into your notebook’s environment using pip.

Add a new code cell and run !pip install <package_name>. This will immediately install the package.