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Short Courses in Bioinformatics and Biocomputing

Intermediate Python

Member for

3 years 1 month
Full name
Gary Chiang

This course is designed for Python programmers who have basic experience with the language or who have taken the introductory Python course. Learners should already have some basic knowledge of Python control flow and data structures (variables, lists, dictionaries). The course will focus on the syntax and structure of Python objects at a deeper level, and the use of functions, loops, and conditionals to produce code that is modular and readable.

Prerequisites:
Students must bring their own laptop with an ability to connect to the UT WiFi network and should already have some knowledge of Python control flow and basic data structures.

Course ID
CB27002
Status
Open
Modality
Hybrid, but in-person encouraged
Course Closes
Wed, Oct 07
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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
Fri, Oct 09
9:30 am - 12:30 pm

$50

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.

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, Oct 07
9:30 am - 12:30 pm

$50

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

Statistical Modeling for Biologists

Member for

3 years 1 month
Full name
Gary Chiang

This course will survey some of the basic principles of statistics crucial to the modeling of biological data. Specific topics will include measures of correlation, hypothesis testing, false discovery rate adjustment, and applications and generalizations of linear models.

Course ID
CB26021
Status
Open
Modality
Hybrid
Course Closes
Fri, Apr 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
Wed, Apr 15
9:30 am - 12:30 pm

$50

Introduction to Next Generation Sequencing Services at the GSAF

Member for

3 years 1 month
Full name
Gary Chiang

This course will offer an introduction into the services provided by the Genomic Sequencing and Analysis Facility available to researchers at the University of Texas. The course will cover the platforms and services available, best practices and how to submit samples to the core.

Course ID
CB26029
Status
Open
Location
Modality
Virtual
Course Closes
Mon, Apr 06
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 10
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

$10

Introduction to Single Cell Data Analysis

Member for

3 years 1 month
Full name
Gary Chiang

This course provides an introduction to the bioinformatics analysis of single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data, with a particular focus on methods especially appropriate for analysis of 10X Genomics data. Differences between bulk RNA-seq and scRNA-seq will be discussed in order to develop understanding of both what new methods are required versus what established RNA-seq analysis methods can be retained. A typical workflow for single cell RNA-seq analysis using Seurat will be presented.

Course ID
CB26020
Status
Open
Modality
Hybrid, but in-person encouraged
Course Closes
Fri, Apr 03
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 08
9:30 am - 12:30 pm

$50

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