# sourmash tutorials and notebooks ## The first two tutorials! These tutorials are both command line tutorials that should work on Mac OS X and Linux. They require about 5 GB of disk space and 5 GB of RAM. * [The first sourmash tutorial - making signatures, comparing, and searching](tutorial-basic.html) * [Using sourmash LCA to do taxonomic classification](tutorials-lca.html) ## Background and details These next three tutorials are all notebooks that you can view, run yourself, or run interactively online via the [binder](http://mybinder.org) service. * [An introduction to k-mers for genome comparison and analysis](kmers-and-minhash.html) * [Some sourmash command line examples!](sourmash-examples.html) * [Working with private collections of signatures.](sourmash-collections.html) ## More information If you are a Python programmer, you might also be interested in our [API examples](api-example.html) as well as a short guide to [Using the `LCA_Database` API.](using-LCA-database-API.html) If you prefer R, we have [a short guide to using sourmash output with R](other-languages.html).