The second half of each meeting period is dedicated to hands-on materials. We designed these materials to be practical and interactive, allowing you to apply the concepts and techniques discussed in the lectures.
| Hands-on | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1.Introduction | Design a simple computational biology experiment |
| 2.Version control | Setting up and using GitHub |
| 3.Environments | Creating and managing a conda environment |
| 4.Data wrangling | Comparing differences between R and python t-test results |
| 5.Workflows and orchestration | Assignment: Building a simple snakemake workflow |
| 6.Data visualization | Bad graph competition |
| 7.Interactive data analysis | Assignment: Building a simple shiny app |
| 8.Documentation and readability | Customize your GitHub profile with a README.md |
| 9.R and Python Packaging | Assignment: Building a simple R package |
| 10.HPC and Parallel Computing | No hands-on materials |
| 11.Software Gardening | Improving the course materials by opening an issue |
| 12.Reproducibility as an Iterative Process | Improving the course materials by filing a pull request |