Summary The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) offers events, including workshops hands-on, interactive training sessions. All events are listed on the NCBI Outreach Events page. Workshop recordings and materials remain available after the live …
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R and Python workshops on Campus – Winter 2024
Summary Workshop Series available on Campus on R and Python: – Biochem – Social Science Computing Cooperative (SSCC) – UW Libraries – SSteenbock Library Workshops – Computational Biology, Ecology, & Evolution (ComBEE) Study Groups …
Is p-value hacking reverse statistics?
Summary P-value hacking is the process of manipulating or analyzing data in a way that increases the likelihood of obtaining statistically significant results. I used 4 different AI chatbots to obtain an explanation with examples. …
Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 7: BibTeX for online articles
Summary A tool to create a BibTeX entry for online articles or blogs. Generate BibTeX from URL This is a follow-up on 6 “Episode”” in previous posts titled “Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown…” In …
Data exploration in R with Tidyverse dplyr – part 2 – 10 examples
Summary Part 1 (Sgro (2023)) : was a general overview of the dplyr package for data exploration and manipulation to summarize or extract information from tabular data. Part 2: (This post) provides worked examples while …
Data exploration in R with Tidyverse dplyr – part 1 – overview
Summary Part 1: A general overview of the dplyr package for data exploration and manipulation to summarize or extract information. Part 2: Next post will provide worked examples. 1 Motivation The Biochemistry R Club is following …
Foundational concepts to understand AI: free online curricula
Summary Alignment Course is an online curriculum that provides materials in a useful order to learn fundamentals. The Governance Course offers similar material at the beginning, but then moves towards governance (regulations etc.). Within the first …
Install Local Docker Desktop on macOS without Admin
NOT FOR USE AT UW SYSTEMS Important note (oct 07, 2024): changes in the licensing of Docker Desktop has changed. It is no longer recommended to UW personnel to download Docker Desktop to install Docker. …
Interactive bioinformatics tutorials
Summary sandbox.bio provides interactive tutorials for exploring bioinformatics command-line tools within a web browser. Bioinformatics When people ask “what is bioinformatics” I have to pause. When I named a computer “bioinformatics” at the dawn of …
AlphaFold2 with full databases and multimer option
Summary This article describes running AlphaFold2 with full databases at the UW-Madison Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) and is part of an article series titled Five ways to run AlphaFold. CHTC cluster, HTCondor, Containerization …