You've been handed the keys to something extraordinary. This is your guide to Claude Code — built specifically for you.
Gratulerer, Frode. You're about to discover what happens when an AI stops being a chatbot and starts being a colleague. Claude Code isn't another chat window — it lives in your terminal, reads your files, writes code, analyzes data, and builds things. Real things.
I know what you're thinking. "Terminal? I'm the Head of Department at Biomedicine, not a systems engineer." That's exactly the point. You don't need to know how to code. You tell Claude what you want — in plain language — and it handles the rest. Literature reviews. Data analysis. Grant drafts. Even entire web applications.
I built this guide specifically for you. Not for a generic user. For you — the proteomics professor with 80+ publications and 5,500 citations. The PROBE platform leader. The man who somehow won Havfisker'n 2025 (still suspicious, by the way).
And no, this technology is not part of a shadow government surveillance program. Probably.
Search PubMed, analyze papers, draft methods sections, write reviewer responses. Like a postdoc who's read everything — and actually remembers it.
Load your proteomics CSVs, run statistics, create volcano plots, PCA, heatmaps. Point it at a MaxQuant output and watch it work.
Abstracts, grant applications, faculty communications, recommendation letters. Adapts tone from NFR formal to collegial email.
Describe what you need in plain language. A lab inventory system, a data dashboard, a research group website. Claude builds it.
Budget summaries, committee reports, meeting prep, department communications. The parts of being Head of Department that nobody warns you about.
Exam questions from learning objectives, course materials, assessment rubrics. Turn your expertise into structured content.
Press Cmd + Space, type "Terminal", hit Enter. That's the hardest part, genuinely.
Your Mac needs these tools first. Homebrew is a package manager, Node.js runs JavaScript. Copy-paste each line, one at a time.
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
After Homebrew installs, it will show two commands starting with eval — run both of them. Then:
brew install node
Now that Node.js is installed, one command gets you Claude Code.
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
This pulls down your personalized repo with examples, sample data, and pre-configured settings.
git clone https://github.com/nemiswork/claude-code-for-frode.git
Navigate into the folder and start Claude. It already knows who you are.
cd claude-code-for-frode && claude
Read files, ask questions, run code. The basics in 10 minutes.
Literature search, manuscript drafts, grant writing.
Proteomics datasets, volcano plots, differential expression.
Abstracts, admin emails, peer reviews, recommendations.
Create a working web app. No coding required. Seriously.
Skills, agents, plan mode, MCP. The deep end.