I'm a high school kid who's clueless about computing. I need to use PLINK on my MacBook for a bioinformatics project but I'm not sure how to even run it after downloading it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

CodePudding user response：

• Firstly, you have to have jre or jdk installed. You can download jdk 8 (my preferred one) from the link. Just select the MacOS tab, and proceed.
• Once downloaded, double-click to install.
• Then, you have to download the application zip (here).
• Extract it.
• Double click on the gPLINK.jar in the extracted folder. If you faced an error, do the following: Open System Preferences> navigate to Security & Privacy icon > click on the lock icon below and enter password if required >on General tab, allow the program to be run.
• Now the program must be launched successfully. You can move the .jar file to a desirable location, so that you will not forget where it was located.