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This site contains course materials, scripts, homeworks, and resources for Computational Biology, Spring 2025.
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). |