BIFX 552 Bioinformatics Data Skills

Prerequisites: A minimum grade of "B-" in BIFX 551 or permission of the instructor. 

This class introduces applied data science skills needed by bioinformatics professionals. A focus will be placed on reproducible bioinformatics research and will include the following topics and tools:beginning to intermediate use of the Unix command line, working with remote computing resources, version tracking, R and Bioconductor, tools for manipulating sequence data, and
creation of pipelines.