The UNZA bioinformatics interest meetings will be held at the Department of food science and nutrition on the Great East Road Campus. If you want to come, please visit this form to indicate your email address so we know what amount of people to expect.
The workshops
For attending the workshops, you need a laptop with linux and 10Gb of storage. This guide explains how to set this up. The workshops are held on the UNZA campus.
| Date | start | end | Speaker | Title | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2/25/2025 | 14:00 | 17:30 | Sibbe | Yarrr -- statistics for scientific pirates | This workshop will explain R from the beginning, using the free guidebook Yarrr, a pirates guide to R (written by Nathaniel D. Phillips). This will cover the syntax of R, use of rstudio and guide you though an example analysis. |
| 2/26/2025 | 14:00 | 17:30 | Sibbe | Reproducible bioinformatics using Snakemake | In this workshop, we will learn how to use the Snakemake workflow language to set up a bioinformatic workflow |
| 2/27/2025 | 14:00 | 17:30 | Sibbe | Advancing in reproducible science | In this workshop, we will zoom out from our focus on programming, and look at open science. We will see how most software you need to pay for has free (and shareable) alternatives, and that there are public databases for hosting your code, documents and datasets. Please bring your datasets and documents that you want to make more open! |
Organisers
The workshops are organised by Sibbe Bakker and Murambiwa Nyati. For questions please contact Sibbe Bakker.
Sponsors
The Wageningen university and Wageningen travel fund provided funding for the speakers and organisers to travel to Zambia. The Zambia university provided their lecturers and location for us.
