I've just opened applications for the 2015 summer course on Analyzing Next Generation Sequencing Data. The course will run from August 10th through August 21st; for details, see the course information page.
This year there will also be a third week of the course that is invitation-only. This third week …
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Note: this hackathon report was written by ArisKnight Winfree.
This past weekend was the University of Michigan’s hackathon, MHacks IV. Over 1100 students from universities and high schools across the United States took over Ann Arbor from September 5th through September 7th to participate in one of the most …
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At the NIH ADDS meeting, we had several breakout sessions. Michelle Dunn and I led the training session. For this breakout, we had the following agenda:
First, build "sticky-note clouds", with one sticky-note cloud with notes for each of the following topics:
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I am pleased to announce that Dr. Greg Wilson will be giving a two-day Software Carpentry Instructor Training workshop at UC Davis, January 6-7, 2015. This will be an in-person version of the instructor training that Greg runs every quarter; see my blog post about the first such instructor training …
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As I mentioned, I am hoping to significantly scale up my training efforts at UC Davis; it's one of the reasons they hired me, it's a big need in biology, and I'm enthusiastic about the whole thing! A key point is that, at least at the beginning, it may replace …
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tl;dr? The Software Carpentry train-the-trainers workshop in Toronto this past M-W was just fantastic. I can't recommend it enough.
A bit of background: Software Carpentry is a project to teach scientists to use computing more effectively. Started by Greg Wilson about 16 years ago, the project has progressed through …
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This term, I'm once again teaching my upper-division CSE undergrad course in Web Dev here at MSU. For the second time, I'm requiring students to use github for their homework; unlike last year, I now understand pull requests and have integrated them into the process.
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