This is the course website for "Scientific Computing for Biologists" at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Drs. Charlotte Chang, Lou Gross, and Nikhil Deshmukh are the course instructors.

Slides for Day 1, October 13, can be found at RPubs.

Our in-class exercises will consist of a mixture of lectures and interactive programming sessions using R and python. QUBESHub will provide RStudio and jupyter support through their servers for the course exercises. Participants are more than welcome to work on the exercises locally, but using QUBESHub permits everyone to be engaged even if their local machine does not have the necessary languages and packages installed.

Day 2 Materials are in the folder titled PyDataRF

If you'd like to run Python and Jupyter notebook on your own computer, we recommend downloading the Anaconda distribution of Python for scientific computing. This installer will install base python, several data manipulation and plotting libraries, an IDE for writing code, and the Jupyter notebook viewer onto your computer. Be sure to use the Python 3.X version.

To open a jupyter notebook, navigate to the folder that contains the notebook in your terminal and type the following command:

jupyter notebook

Additionally, GitHub natively displays Jupyter notebooks in the browser.