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FNT 1.104

Introduction to Python

Member for

3 years 1 month
Full name
Gary Chiang

Python is a popular programming language that is useful for a wide variety of tasks. This course is a basic introduction to scripting using Python. Skills taught will include data structures, loops, conditional statements, function definitions, and file input and output. This course is taught at an introductory level and is appropriate for students with no programming experience. However, the course is designed to include subjects and techniques that will be helpful to moderately experienced programmers new to Python.

Prerequisites:
Students must bring their own laptop with an ability to connect to the UT WiFi network. No prior knowledge of Python programming is required.

Course ID
CB27001
Status
Open
Modality
Hybrid, but in-person encouraged
Course Closes
Fri, Oct 02
Procard Disclaimer

If you use the UT ProCard for payment of courses, please be aware that you can only charge ONCE per 24 hour period. Any attempts to charge more courses will fail, and you will not be registered.

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Ways to avoid this are: use the ProCard after 24 hours have passed, or the student may use their credit card and be reimbursed later through the usual UT accounting methods, or process the registration with an IDT, otherwise known as an Interdepartmental Transfer (talk to someone in your department that handles the accounts).

Course Semester
Wed, Oct 07
9:30 am - 12:30 pm

$50

Introduction to RNA-Seq

Member for

3 years 1 month
Full name
Gary Chiang

This four-day course provides an introduction to methods for analysis of RNA-seq data. A typical RNA-seq workflow will be featured, starting from quality assessment of raw data, mapping (bwa, kallisto), differential expression analysis (DESeq2), and downstream analyses and visualization. The course also describes analysis methods for dealing with single-cell RNA-Seq data. Participants will gain hands-on experience using these tools in a Linux command line environment.

Preferred or Prerequisite Skills:
None

Computer Requirement:
Students should have their own laptop computer. UT EID is required for wireless access on campus. Please be sure you know both your UT EID when you come to class. To obtain a UT EID, go here.

Course ID
CB26034
Status
Open
Modality
Hybrid, but in-person encouraged
Course Closes
Wed, May 20
Procard Disclaimer

If you use the UT ProCard for payment of courses, please be aware that you can only charge ONCE per 24 hour period. Any attempts to charge more courses will fail, and you will not be registered.

For example, you may add one to many courses for one student into your shopping cart at any one time, and charge them to the ProCard, and you should receive a "registration successful!" page at the end. This is because you registered ONCE for ONE student. If you attempt to register and pay again, for example, for a different student, this will trigger the UT ProCard security system to stop payment, and your registration will not be successful. A page stating this fact will occur after you attempt to process payment. It looks a lot like the "registration was successful" page.

Ways to avoid this are: use the ProCard after 24 hours have passed, or the student may use their credit card and be reimbursed later through the usual UT accounting methods, or process the registration with an IDT, otherwise known as an Interdepartmental Transfer (talk to someone in your department that handles the accounts).

Course Semester
Tue, May 26 - Fri, May 29
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Introduction to Biocomputing: Working in Unix and R

Member for

3 years 1 month
Full name
Gary Chiang

This course will cover the Unix command line and data analysis in R within the context of biocomputing. We will start at the Unix command line and cover command line tools for manipulating data files, before transitioning to RStudio to cover introductory topics and engage with data analysis methods in R. The course will finish up with tidyverse tools and methods for visualizing data using ggplot2.

Preferred or Prerequisite Skills:
None

Computer Requirement:
Students should have their own laptop computer. A UT EID is required for wireless access on campus. Please be sure you know both your UT EID when you come to class. To obtain a UT EID, go here.

Course ID
CB26032
Status
Open
Modality
Hybrid, but in-person encouraged
Course Closes
Wed, May 27
Procard Disclaimer

If you use the UT ProCard for payment of courses, please be aware that you can only charge ONCE per 24 hour period. Any attempts to charge more courses will fail, and you will not be registered.

For example, you may add one to many courses for one student into your shopping cart at any one time, and charge them to the ProCard, and you should receive a "registration successful!" page at the end. This is because you registered ONCE for ONE student. If you attempt to register and pay again, for example, for a different student, this will trigger the UT ProCard security system to stop payment, and your registration will not be successful. A page stating this fact will occur after you attempt to process payment. It looks a lot like the "registration was successful" page.

Ways to avoid this are: use the ProCard after 24 hours have passed, or the student may use their credit card and be reimbursed later through the usual UT accounting methods, or process the registration with an IDT, otherwise known as an Interdepartmental Transfer (talk to someone in your department that handles the accounts).

Course Semester
Mon, Jun 1 - Fri, Jun 5
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Introduction to Python

Member for

3 years 1 month
Full name
Gary Chiang

This five-day course will introduce students to basic concepts in programming using the Python language, establishing a foundation for scientific computing. Trainees will learn introductory topics such as data structures, control flow, functions, file input/output, and data parsing. The class will work with SciPy libraries like Pandas. Trainees will have full access to the teacher’s course book and course content (datasets, scripts, and jupyter notebooks).

Preferred or Prerequisite Skills:
None

Computer Requirement:
This class is offered in-person. Students must provide laptops able to connect to the internet, and a Firefox or Chrome browser. UT EID is required for wireless access. Please be sure you know your UT EID when you come to class. To obtain a UT EID, go here.

Course ID
CB26035
Status
Open
Modality
In-person
Course Closes
Wed, May 27
Procard Disclaimer

If you use the UT ProCard for payment of courses, please be aware that you can only charge ONCE per 24 hour period. Any attempts to charge more courses will fail, and you will not be registered.

For example, you may add one to many courses for one student into your shopping cart at any one time, and charge them to the ProCard, and you should receive a "registration successful!" page at the end. This is because you registered ONCE for ONE student. If you attempt to register and pay again, for example, for a different student, this will trigger the UT ProCard security system to stop payment, and your registration will not be successful. A page stating this fact will occur after you attempt to process payment. It looks a lot like the "registration was successful" page.

Ways to avoid this are: use the ProCard after 24 hours have passed, or the student may use their credit card and be reimbursed later through the usual UT accounting methods, or process the registration with an IDT, otherwise known as an Interdepartmental Transfer (talk to someone in your department that handles the accounts).

Course Semester
Mon, Jun 1 - Fri, Jun 5
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Principles of Machine Learning for Bioinformatics

Member for

3 years 1 month
Full name
Gary Chiang

This four-day course will introduce a selection of machine learning methods used in bioinformatic analyses with a focus on RNA-seq gene expression data. We will cover unsupervised learning, dimensionality reduction and clustering; feature selection and extraction; and supervised learning methods for classification (e.g., random forests, SVM, LDA, kNN, etc.) and regression (with an emphasis on regularization methods appropriate for high-dimensional problems). Participants will have the opportunity to apply these methods as implemented in R and python to publicly available data.

Preferred or Prerequisite Skills:
This course is recommended for students with some prior knowledge of either R or python. Participants are expected to provide their own laptops with recent versions of R and/or python installed. Students will be instructed to download several free software packages (including R packages and python libraries including pandas and sklearn).

Computer Requirement:
Students should have their own laptop computer. UT EID is required for wireless access. Please be sure you know your UT EID when you come to class. To obtain a UT EID, go here.

Course ID
CB26037
Status
Open
Modality
Hybrid
Course Closes
Wed, Jun 10
Procard Disclaimer

If you use the UT ProCard for payment of courses, please be aware that you can only charge ONCE per 24 hour period. Any attempts to charge more courses will fail, and you will not be registered.

For example, you may add one to many courses for one student into your shopping cart at any one time, and charge them to the ProCard, and you should receive a "registration successful!" page at the end. This is because you registered ONCE for ONE student. If you attempt to register and pay again, for example, for a different student, this will trigger the UT ProCard security system to stop payment, and your registration will not be successful. A page stating this fact will occur after you attempt to process payment. It looks a lot like the "registration was successful" page.

Ways to avoid this are: use the ProCard after 24 hours have passed, or the student may use their credit card and be reimbursed later through the usual UT accounting methods, or process the registration with an IDT, otherwise known as an Interdepartmental Transfer (talk to someone in your department that handles the accounts).

Course Semester
Mon, Jun 15 - Thu, Jun 18
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Practical Guide for Designing Genetically Engineered Mice

Member for

3 years 1 month
Full name
Gary Chiang

The class will cover strategies for designing genetically engineered mice. The allele types to be covered include null alleles, point mutations, conditional alleles, and reporter knock-ins.

Course ID
CB26031
Status
Open
Modality
In-person
Course Closes
Wed, Apr 29
Procard Disclaimer

If you use the UT ProCard for payment of courses, please be aware that you can only charge ONCE per 24 hour period. Any attempts to charge more courses will fail, and you will not be registered.

For example, you may add one to many courses for one student into your shopping cart at any one time, and charge them to the ProCard, and you should receive a "registration successful!" page at the end. This is because you registered ONCE for ONE student. If you attempt to register and pay again, for example, for a different student, this will trigger the UT ProCard security system to stop payment, and your registration will not be successful. A page stating this fact will occur after you attempt to process payment. It looks a lot like the "registration was successful" page.

Ways to avoid this are: use the ProCard after 24 hours have passed, or the student may use their credit card and be reimbursed later through the usual UT accounting methods, or process the registration with an IDT, otherwise known as an Interdepartmental Transfer (talk to someone in your department that handles the accounts).

Course Semester
Mon, May 4
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Free

Advanced Bash Scripting

Member for

3 years 1 month
Full name
Gary Chiang

This is a two-part course, with substantial hands-on experience in a shared computing environment. The course will cover advanced topics in writing Bash shell scripts, providing tips, examples and best practices for creating robust “pipeline scripts” that execute multiple processing steps. Topics include defining functions, argument processing and defaulting, error checking, effective use of utilities such as awk and grep, as well as subtleties of UNIX streams and text manipulation.

Prerequisites:
Intermediate Unix or equivalent experience. Students wishing to participate in the hands-on portions should bring their own laptop.

Course ID
CB26024
Status
Open
Modality
In-person. Zoom access available upon request.
Course Closes
Fri, May 01
Procard Disclaimer

If you use the UT ProCard for payment of courses, please be aware that you can only charge ONCE per 24 hour period. Any attempts to charge more courses will fail, and you will not be registered.

For example, you may add one to many courses for one student into your shopping cart at any one time, and charge them to the ProCard, and you should receive a "registration successful!" page at the end. This is because you registered ONCE for ONE student. If you attempt to register and pay again, for example, for a different student, this will trigger the UT ProCard security system to stop payment, and your registration will not be successful. A page stating this fact will occur after you attempt to process payment. It looks a lot like the "registration was successful" page.

Ways to avoid this are: use the ProCard after 24 hours have passed, or the student may use their credit card and be reimbursed later through the usual UT accounting methods, or process the registration with an IDT, otherwise known as an Interdepartmental Transfer (talk to someone in your department that handles the accounts).

Course Semester
Wed, May 06 and Fri, May 08
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

$50 (includes both days)

Intermediate Unix

Member for

3 years 1 month
Full name
Gary Chiang

This is a two-part course, with substantial hands-on practice in a shared computing environment. Topics will build on those in the introductory course, including more on the filesystem, the Bash shell, and text processing on the command line. The course will emphasize manipulating text using standard Linux utilities and stringing commands together using pipes. We’ll also introduce some of the powerful Linux utilities such as cut, sort, grep and awk, with the goal of continuing the climb up the steep Linux learning curve.

Prerequisites:
Introduction to Unix or equivalent experience. Students wishing to participate in the hands-on portions should bring their own laptop.

Course ID
CB26023
Status
Open
Modality
In-person. Zoom access available upon request.
Course Closes
Fri, Apr 24
Procard Disclaimer

If you use the UT ProCard for payment of courses, please be aware that you can only charge ONCE per 24 hour period. Any attempts to charge more courses will fail, and you will not be registered.

For example, you may add one to many courses for one student into your shopping cart at any one time, and charge them to the ProCard, and you should receive a "registration successful!" page at the end. This is because you registered ONCE for ONE student. If you attempt to register and pay again, for example, for a different student, this will trigger the UT ProCard security system to stop payment, and your registration will not be successful. A page stating this fact will occur after you attempt to process payment. It looks a lot like the "registration was successful" page.

Ways to avoid this are: use the ProCard after 24 hours have passed, or the student may use their credit card and be reimbursed later through the usual UT accounting methods, or process the registration with an IDT, otherwise known as an Interdepartmental Transfer (talk to someone in your department that handles the accounts).

Course Semester
Wed, Apr 29 and Fri, May 01
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

$50 (includes both days)

Introduction to Unix

Member for

3 years 1 month
Full name
Gary Chiang

This is a two-part course, with substantial hands-on practice in a shared computing environment. Participants will learn the basics of using UNIX from the command line. Introductory topics include manipulating text files using standard UNIX utilities, how to string utilities together, and how to output the results to files. The goal of the course is to develop some basic comfort at the command line, get a sense of what’s possible, and learn how to find help.

Prerequisites:
Students wishing to participate in the hands-on portions should bring their own laptop.

Course ID
CB26022
Status
Open
Modality
In-person. Zoom access available upon request.
Course Closes
Fri, Apr 17
Procard Disclaimer

If you use the UT ProCard for payment of courses, please be aware that you can only charge ONCE per 24 hour period. Any attempts to charge more courses will fail, and you will not be registered.

For example, you may add one to many courses for one student into your shopping cart at any one time, and charge them to the ProCard, and you should receive a "registration successful!" page at the end. This is because you registered ONCE for ONE student. If you attempt to register and pay again, for example, for a different student, this will trigger the UT ProCard security system to stop payment, and your registration will not be successful. A page stating this fact will occur after you attempt to process payment. It looks a lot like the "registration was successful" page.

Ways to avoid this are: use the ProCard after 24 hours have passed, or the student may use their credit card and be reimbursed later through the usual UT accounting methods, or process the registration with an IDT, otherwise known as an Interdepartmental Transfer (talk to someone in your department that handles the accounts).

Course Semester
Wed, Apr 22 and Fri, April 24
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

$50 (includes both days)

Introduction to Light Microscopy

Member for

3 years 1 month
Full name
Gary Chiang

Light microscopy allows scientists to visualize and analyze the structure and function of biological and material samples. In this class, Quinn will cover the fundamentals of fluorescence and image resolution; the theory behind a variety of microscopy techniques, including confocal, spinning disk confocal, TIRF, multiphoton, and super-resolution microscopes; applications of these techniques; and best practices for imaging experiments.

Course ID
CB26030
Status
Open
Modality
Hybrid
Course Closes
Mon, Apr 13
Procard Disclaimer

If you use the UT ProCard for payment of courses, please be aware that you can only charge ONCE per 24 hour period. Any attempts to charge more courses will fail, and you will not be registered.

For example, you may add one to many courses for one student into your shopping cart at any one time, and charge them to the ProCard, and you should receive a "registration successful!" page at the end. This is because you registered ONCE for ONE student. If you attempt to register and pay again, for example, for a different student, this will trigger the UT ProCard security system to stop payment, and your registration will not be successful. A page stating this fact will occur after you attempt to process payment. It looks a lot like the "registration was successful" page.

Ways to avoid this are: use the ProCard after 24 hours have passed, or the student may use their credit card and be reimbursed later through the usual UT accounting methods, or process the registration with an IDT, otherwise known as an Interdepartmental Transfer (talk to someone in your department that handles the accounts).

Course Semester
Fri, Apr 17
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

$20

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