Educators:
Malvika Sharan, Marc Gouw (HD-HuB)
Date:
5-7 December 2018
Location:
Universidad Nacional de Quilmes
Contents:
The aim of Software Carpentry is to enable researchers to be more productive while producing work of higher quality. This 2.5-day workshop will teach the key skills required to practice robust computational science effectively and efficiently, and provide an overview of some of the tools and resources available for modern computational biology.
Topics covered include:
• An introduction to scripting in Python, and using the language for scientific applications and biological data handling
• Effective use of the Unix command line
• Version control with git and GitHub
Learning goals:
This course aims to teach software writing skills and best practices to researchers in biology who wish to analyze data, and to introduce a toolset that can help them in their work. The goal is to enable them to be more productive and to make their science better and more reproducible.
Prerequisites:
None
Tools:
Python, Unix, git, GitHub
Keywords:
Python, Unix, git, GitHub, SWC
Contact:
Malvika Sharan
More information:
https://malvikasharan.github.io/2018-12-05-quilmes/
Registration:
https://www.hd-hub.de/course-dates/3-all/38-swc-2018-quilmes