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BCB330Y (Special Project in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology)
BCB430Y (Advanced Special Project in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology)
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Summary ...
- http://biochemistry.utoronto.ca/courses/bcb330y-bcb-project/
- http://biochemistry.utoronto.ca/courses/bcb430y-bcb-project/
Introductory reading
Contents
- how to maintain a lab journal on Google Docs and MediaWiki
- a bioinformatics centric introduction to R
- uses of GitHub
- collaborative workflow via RStudio, GitHub and back
- best practices for reproducible research (documentation and backup)
- writing and maintaining requirements documents
- architecture-centric design
- defining software module interfaces
- test-driven development (incl. unit- and integration testing)
- code style guides
- function templates
- essentials of code-review
- contributing to R packages
- (possibly: principles of literate programming and R-Notebooks)
- documentation (with Roxygen and markdown)
- design patterns for bioinformatics, and
- simulation and permutation tests for statistics with biological datasets
Further reading and resources
