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This site contains course materials, scripts, homeworks, and resources for Computational Biology, Spring 2025.
Course Materials
TIBS Workshop Installation 14 October 2026
TIBS Workshop Script 14 October 2026
Goiania Workshop Script 3 June 2025
Cheat Sheets & Programming Resources
Lecture Outlines & Homework Assignments
| Date | Lecture | Homework |
|---|---|---|
| January 14 | Introduction | - |
| January 15 | - | Homework #1 |
| January 16 | GitHub | - |
| January 21 | Markdown | - |
| January 22 | - | Homework #2 |
| January 23 | Regular Expressions | - |
| January 28 | Atomic Vectors I | - |
| January 29 | - | Homework #3 |
| January 30 | Atomic Vectors II | - |
| February 4 | Matrices, Lists, Data Frames | - |
| February 5 | Portfolio Check #1 | Homework #4 |
| February 6 | Matrices, Lists, Data Frames II | - |
| February 11 | Functions I | - |
| February 12 | - | Homework #5 |
| February 13 | Functions II | - |
| February 18 | Control Structures | - |
| February 19 | - | Homework # 6 |
| February 20 | For Loops I | - |
| February 25 | For Loops II | (Probability Distributions) |
| February 26 | dplyr/SQL | |
| February 27 | dplyr+SQL lecture notes | Homework #7 |
| March 4 | Town Meeting Day Recess | - |
| March 5 | Portfolio Check #2 | Catch-Up Day |
| March 6 | Probability Distributions I | - |
| March 11 | Spring Recess | - |
| March 12 | Spring Recess | - |
| March 13 | Spring Recess | - |
| March 18 | Probability Distributions II | - |
| March 19 | Homework #8 | |
| March 20 | Strategic Coding Practices | - |
| March 25 | Strategic Coding Practices II | - |
| March 26 | - | Homework #9 |
| March 27 | ggplot I | - |
| April 1 | ggplot II | - |
| April 2 | - | Catch-up Day |
| April 3 | ggplot III | - |
| April 8 | ggplot III | - |
| April 9 | Portfolio Check #3 | Homework #10 |
| April 10 | ggplot IV | - |
| April 15 | Functional Programming | - |
| April 16 | - | |
| April 17 | File Batch Processing I | - |
| April 22 | File Batch Processing II | - |
| April 23 | - | Catch-up Day |
| April 24 | File Batch Processing III | - |
| April 29 | Lecture Spillover Day | - |
| April 30 | Lecture Spillover Day | - |
| May 1 | Lecture Spillover Day | - |
Important Dates
- 17 January: Last day to add classes without instructor permission
- 27 January: Add/Drop, Pass/No Pass, Audit Deadline
- 28 March: Last day to withdraw
- 18 April: Honors Day
- 2 May: Last day of classes
- 3,3,7 May: Reading days
- 5,6,8,9 May: Final exam days
Meet The Class of 2025
| Student | GitHub and Portfolio Links | Fun Fact |
|---|---|---|
| Juliana Barbosa Torreao Dau | GitHub | I love to paint using watercolor. |
| Taylor Bean | GitHub | I have 2 axolotls named Neil and Oscar |
| Claire Benning | GitHub | My max speed alpine skiing is 52 mph |
| Isaac Buabeng | GitHub | I speak four languages (three fluently, the other so so!) and enjoy trying different types of food! |
| Audrey Commerford | GitHub | I have dyed my hair every color of the rainbow. |
| Lauren Connolly | GitHub | I live in Vermont and I have never been skiing |
| Laura Costello | GitHub | I’ve seen 29 wild orchid species in New England, and my goal is to see them all |
| Silas Decker | GitHub | I love soil, specifically microbes within |
| Nick Gotelli | GitHub Portfolio | For the past 40 years, I have owned and raised pure-bred, show-quality chow chows. |
| Rei Jia | GitHub | My parents were in a National Geographic documentary |
| Robert Jones | GitHub | I was briefly the Northern most human in the state of Alaska |
| Noah Mattheis | GitHub | |
| Nick Maurizi | GitHub | I love mountain biking |
| Sydney Miller | GitHub | I weave textiles! |
| Graham Montague | GitHub | I night snorkeled with American Eels last summer in Lake Champlain! |
| George Ni | GitHub Portfolio | I used to train birds for falconry and science shows. |
| Leslie Paredes Torres | GitHub | I used to be a dolphin trainer |
| Emma Privett | GitHub | I have an among us tattoo! |
| Kristof Rohaly-Medved | GitHub | |
| Lamija Semic | GitHub | I study the Colorado potato beetle! |
| Isabelle Smith | GitHub | I have never broken a bone |
| Sarah Stover | GitHub | My mom is a twin and so am I |
| Sage Sularz | GitHub | I love to travel and have visited 6/7 continents (so far!) |
| Jay Sullivan | GitHub | I have been sailing for a little more than a decade. |
| Vincent Tamakloe | GitHub | I love soccer, and I am pretty good at it |
| Sam Troast | GitHub | I’m an identical twin |
| Maggie Trout | GitHub | I went to an arts school for middle and high school |
| Maddie Winer | GitHub | I have been vegan for the past 3 years. |
| Nicolas Zapata | GitHub | I really like statistics but it takes me a long time to process the data (in my head). |