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This site contains course materials, scripts, homeworks, and resources for Computational Biology, Spring 2022.
Lecture Outlines & Homework Assignments
| Date | Lecture | Homework |
|---|---|---|
| January 18 | Introduction | - |
| January 19 | - | Homework #1 |
| January 20 | GitHub | - |
| January 25 | Github II | - |
| January 26 | - | Homework #2 |
| January 27 | Regular Expressions | - |
| February 1 | Markdown | - |
| February 2 | - | Homework #3 |
| February 3 | LaTeX & Typora | - |
| February 8 | Atomic Vectors I | - |
| February 9 | Portfolio Check #1 | Homework #4 |
| February 10 | Atomic Vectors II | - |
| February 15 | Matrices, Lists, Data Frames | - |
| February 16 | - | Homework #5 |
| February 17 | Data Curation | - |
| February 22 | Probability Distributions | - |
| February 23 | - | Homework #6 |
| February 24 | Experimental Designs | - |
| March 1 | Town Meeting Day Recess | - |
| March 2 | - | Homework #7 |
| March 3 | Functions | - |
| March 8 | Spring Recess | - |
| March 9 | Spring Recess | - |
| March 10 | Spring Recess | - |
| March 15 | Structured Programming I | - |
| March 16 | Portfolio Check #2 | Homework #8 |
| March 17 | Structured Programming II | - |
| March 22 | Control Structures I | - |
| March 23 | - | Homework #9 |
| March 24 | Control Structures II | - |
| March 29 | Control Structures III | - |
| March 30 | - | Homework #10 |
| March 31 | Randomization Tests | - |
| April 5 | Batch Processing | - |
| April 6 | - | Homework #11 |
| April 7 | dplyr | - |
| April 12 | ggplot I | - |
| April 13 | Portfolio Check #3 | Homework #12 |
| April 14 | ggplot II | - |
| April 19 | ggplot III | - |
| April 27 | - | Catch-up Day |
| April 21 | Functional Programming | - |
| April 26 | Github III | - |
| April 27 | - | Catch-up Day |
| April 28 | Shell Commands | - |
| May 3 | Catch-up Day | - |
| May 4 | Catch-up Day | - |
| May 5 | Catch-up Day | - |
Important Dates
- 24 January: Last day to add classes without instructor permission
- 31 January: Add/Drop, Pass/No Pass, Audit Deadline
- 4 April: Last day to withdraw
- 22 April: Honors Day
- 6 May: Last day of classes
- 7,8,11 May: Reading days
- 9,10,12,13 May: Final exam days
Meet The Class of 2022
| Student | GitHub and Portfolio Links | Fun Fact |
|---|---|---|
| Maria Alfaro | GitHub Portfolio | I’ve lived in a tree house in Hawaii, in an ambulance at Mt Hood, and on a sailboat in the Caribbean. |
| Lauren Ash | GitHub Portfolio | While interning at Busch Gardens in Florida, I made friends with Rosie the elephant because she would sway and stare at me for hours. |
| Noah Beckage | GitHub Portfolio | I ran the Philadelphia marathon in 3 hrs 45 mins |
| Emily Beasley | GitHub Portfolio | I have baked bread as a hobby since I started my Master’s degree (my sourdough starter’s name is Julia Child) |
| Gillian Berglund | GitHub Portfolio | I have lived in Colorado, Oregon, Florida, New York and Vermont! |
| Lauren Berkley | GitHub Portfolio | Fun fact: I am trained in marine mammal stranding response!) |
| Sam Brewer | GitHub Portfolio | I collect fairy garden statues! |
| Lindsey Carlson | GitHub Portfolio | I have circumnavigated the world by ship. |
| Blair Christensen | GitHub Portfolio | I taught high school science in Spain |
| Grace Durant | GitHub Portfolio | I know the name of nearly every humpback whale that frequents Stellwagen Bank in Massachusetts. |
| Al Freeman | GitHub Portfolio | I play the banjo (terribly). |
| David Green | GitHub Portfolio | I’m 22 and I’ve thrown my back out twice |
| Nick Gotelli | GitHub Portfolio | For the past 15 years (pre-covid), I have organized musical performances at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America (New Orleans 2018). |
| Jacqueline Guillemin | GitHub Portfolio | I live with a cat that can say hello! |
| Jasmine Hart | GitHub Portfolio | My fun fact is that I’m a certified yoga instructor! |
| Andrew McCracken | GitHub Portfolio | I have broken my right foot 3 times |
| Stephen Peters-Collaer | GitHub Portfolio | I’m learning to play the mandolin |
| Greta Savitsky | GitHub Portfolio | I lived in Copenhagen for a few months |
| Anna Schmidt | GitHub Portfolio | I have a four-leaf clover collection since I find them all the time! |
| Reed Scott | GitHub Portfolio | I once got lost and ended up in Canada |
| Hannah Shafer | GitHub Portfolio | Before I moved to Vermont I was farming full-time. |
| Haorui Sun | Github Portfolio | The province I came from has around 100M population. |
| Rachel Swanwick | Github Portfolio | I used to work as a snowboard instructor |
| Joe Webb | GitHub Portfolio | I am a self taught pianist who can play a mean Pirates of the Caribbean theme song. |
