We hope you now have more familiarity with key concepts, tools, and techniques that will enable more efficient, reproducible, and impactful computational research.


Housekeeping


Looking ahead

Workshop environment

  • BASH Shell and RStudio workshop compute environment will be available for one week from today.

    • Please save all your R scripts now so that we can “right-size” the compute environment immediately following today’s workshop session.
  • You can download files from the workshop environment from your terminal/command line window as below. (You will need to substitute your actual workshop username and type workshop password when prompted.)

    mkdir computational-foundations-workshop
    scp -r YOUR_USERNAME@bfx-workshop01.med.umich.edu:"CF*" computational-foundations-workshop

    Installing software locally

Continued training and support

Learning computational techniques is more like a process than a task. Resources to consider as you continues your study:

University of Michigan Resources

  • UM CoderSpaces “office hours” and UM CoderSpaces Slack workspace. (See “Useful Resources” section in above page for instructions on how to join and access the CoderSpaces Slack workspace.)
  • The Carpentries at the University of Michigan host several introductory workshops each year following curricula that are developed collaboratively and using the latest research into best practices for teaching computer science content. All workshops are offered for free to learners.
  • Upcoming UM Advanced Research Computing workshops.
  • Advanced Research Computing (ARC) at University of Michigan hosts a high-performance computing (HPC) platform called Great Lakes which combines high-end computers, fast/resilient storage, and pre-installed software. GreatLakes may be a good resource for folks who need to run the more compute intensive steps and a substantial block of compute and storage is subsidized by ARC making it essentially free to many researchers.

Thank you

Sponsors

Chris Marci Raymond Travis
Rhema Rucheng Dana


Thank you for participating on our workshop. We welcome your questions and feedback now and in the future.

Bioinformatics Workshop Team

bioinformatics-workshops@umich.edu
UM BRCF Bioinformatics Core