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Modern C++ for Computational Scientists @ EPCC at Strathclyde, Glasgow

With the recent revisions to the C++ language and standard library, the ways it is now being used are quite different. Used well, these features enable the programmer to write elegant, reusable and portable code that runs efficiently on a variety of architectures. However it is still a very...

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Formation metabarcoding 2019

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Single cell RNA-seq analysis: From questions to clusters

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Introduction to R for Biologists

R is one of the leading programming languages in Data Science. It is widely used to perform statistics, machine learning, visualisations and data analyses. It is an open source programming language so all the software we will use in the course is free. This course is an introduction to R...

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Library Carpentry - Massey University, NZ

Software and data skills for people working in library- and information-related roles. https://pad.carpentries.org/2019-08-26-massey

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Bioinformatics - the Power of Computers in Biology: A Practical Guide

This Practical Guide in the Bringing Bioinformatics into the Classroom series introduces simple bioinformatics approaches for database searching and sequence analysis. A ‘mystery’ gene is used as an exemplar: we first characterise the gene, then use it to explore the impact of gene loss in...

Scientific topics: Sequence analysis

Keywords: Basic bioinformatics, Basic linux commands, Bioinformatics schools, Gene loss, Genetic mutation, Raspberry pi computers, Sequence analysis, Sequence database searching, Training materials

Added to TeSS 17 days ago
A Critical Guide to the neXtProt knowledgebase: querying using SPARQL

This Critical Guide in the Introduction to Bioinformatics series briefly outlines how to explore the neXtProt human protein database using SPARQL. While text indexation has made database contents more accessible, being able to combine search criteria for specific content permits more powerful...

Scientific topics: Database management

Keywords: Human protein database, Introduction bioinformatics, Introduction nextprot, Nextprot data model, Rdf triples, Semantic triples, Sparql queries, Sparql syntax, Training material

Added to TeSS 18 days ago
Regular expressions

This course introduces regular expressions and how to search for text patterns in a number of programming languages (UNIX command line, R, Python etc.). It is aimed at colleagues who are going to run analysis programs on their own or wish to use computing clusters.

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AWK and BASH scripting

This course introduces scripting with AWK and BASH. It is aimed at colleagues who are going to run analysis programs on their own or wish to use computing clusters.

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