TeachingMaterial

This repository is an aggregator for various R, make and git/github teaching material. Most of the courses are taught at the University of Cambridge, UK, and some have been adapted and exported outside. We would also like to acknowledge contributions from Aleksandra Pawlik, Software Sustainability Institute, Raphael Gottardo, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Karl Broman, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Material

Mass spectrometry and proteomics using R/Bioconductor

• Description: In this course, we will use R/Bioconductor packages to explore, process, visualise and understand mass spectrometry-based proteomics data, starting with raw data, and proceeding with identification and quantitation data, discussing some of their peculiarities compared to sequencing data along the way. The workflow is aimed at a beginner to intermediate level, such as, for example, seasoned R users who want to get started with mass spectrometry and proteomics, or proteomics practitioners who want to familiarise themselves with R and Bioconductor infrastructure.
• Direct link: http://bit.ly/bioc-ms-prot (see also this 3-days workshop)
• Author: Laurent Gatto
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/bioc-ms-prot
• More details: README

Visualising biomolecular data

• Description: This Visualisation of biomolecular data course is aimed at people who are already familiar with the R language and syntax, and who would like to get a hands-on introduction to visualisation, with a focus on biomolecular data in general, and proteomics in particular. This course is meant to be mostly hands-on, with an intuitive understanding of the underlying techniques.
• Direct link: http://bit.ly/biomolvis
• Author: Laurent Gatto
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/VisualisingBiomolecularData

A gentle introduction to git and Github

• Learning GitHub and a bit about git using a pancake recipe as an example.
• Blog post: https://lgatto.github.io/github-intro/
• Author: Laurent Gatto

Introduction to bioinformatics and data science

• Description: The WSBIM1207 course is an introduction to bioinformatics (and data science) for biology and biomedical students. It introduces bioinformatics methodology and technologies without relying on any prerequisites. The aim of this course is for students to be in a position to understand important notions of bioinformatics and tackle simple bioinformatics-related problems in R, in particular to develope simple R analysis scripts and reproducible analysis reports to interogate, visualise and understand data in a tidy tabular format.
• Direct link: http://bit.ly/WSBIM1207
• Author: Laurent Gatto

Bioinformatics

• Description: The WSBIM1322 course is teaches the basics of statistical data analysis applied to high throughput biology. It is aimed at biology and biomedical students that are already familiar with the R langauge (see the pre-requisits section below). The students will familiarise themselves with statitical learning concepts such as unsupervised and supervised learning, hypothesis testing, and extend their understanding and practive in R data structures and programming and the Bioconductor project.
• Direct link: http://bit.ly/WSBIM1322
• Author: Laurent Gatto

Advanced R programming

• Description: A two-day course taught on the 3-4 April 2017, teaching advanced techniques in writing reliable, robust code in R.
• Author: Laurent Gatto, and Robert Stojnic.
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/2017-04-03-adv-r-progr-EMBL
• Content: The material provides the opportunity to gain experience and understanding of object-oriented programming, packaging your code for distribution, advanced approaches for data visualisation, unit testing, and debugging.

R debugging and robust programming

• Description: A 2-day workshop taught on the 25-26 February 2016 at the EMBL, Heidelberg. The course aims at teaching participants debugging techniques and good practice in writing reliable, robust code.
• Author: Laurent Gatto, based on previous content by Laurent Gatto and Robert Stojnic, and Advanced R, by Hadley Wickham.
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/2016-02-25-adv-programming-EMBL
• Content: Part I: Coding style(s), Interactive use and programming, Environments, Tidy data, Computing on the language. Part II: Functions, Robust programming with functions, Scoping, Closures, High-level functions, Vectorisation. Part III: Defensive programming, Debbugging: techniques and tools, Condition handling: try/tryCatch, Unit testing. Part IV: Benchmarking, Profiling, Optimisation, Memory, Rcpp.
• More details: https://github.com/lgatto/2016-02-25-adv-programming-EMBL/blob/master/README.md

rbc

• Description: Software carpentry R bootcamp, Jan 7-8, 2014, Cambridge, UK and 6-7 Nov 2014, Zurich, Switzerland.
• Authors: Stephen Eglen, Laurent Gatto, Robert Stojnić and Aleksandra Pawlik
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/rbc/
• Content: R programming, plotting, git/github (via software carpentry), make, shell and knitr, profiling, testing, debugging.

spr

• Description: Scientific Programming with R, MPhil in Computational Biology
• Author: Stephen Eglen with contributions from Laurent Gatto
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/spr
• More details: README

Biostat-578

• Description: Bioinformatics for Big Omics Data
• Author: Raphael Gottardo, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• Original repository: https://github.com/raphg/Biostat-578
• More details: README

github_tutorial

• Description: git/github guide
• Original repository: https://github.com/kbroman/github_tutorial
• Author: Karl Broman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• View it here: http://kbroman.github.io/github_tutorial/

minimal_make

• Description: minimal tutorial on make
• Original repository: https://github.com/kbroman/minimal_make
• Author: Karl Broman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• View it here: http://kbroman.github.io/minimal_make/

QuickPackage

• Description: Two brief overviews of R package creation
• Author: Laurent Gatto
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/QuickPackage
• More details: README
• Download the QuickPackage and QuickPackageAndMore slides (pdf)

R package development

• Description: Developing, documenting and testing an R package
• Author: Laurent Gatto and Robert Stojnić
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/RPackageDevelopment
• More details: README
• Download the pdf

Benchmarking, profiling and optimisation

• Description: Benchmarking, profiling and optimisation
• Author: Laurent Gatto
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/R-bmark-prof-optim
• More details: https://github.com/lgatto/R-bmark-prof-optim#readme
• Read the material

RBasics

• Description: A introduction to R for knowledgeable bioinformaticians. Used as R intro lecture for the CSAMA workshop.
• Author: Laurent Gatto
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/RBasics
• More details: README
• Download the pdf

RIntro

• Description: A 1 day introductionary course, developed specifically for Microarray Analysis using R and Bioconductor.
• Author: Laurent Gatto
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/RIntro
• More details: README
• Download the pdf

basicr

• Description: Material for the 2-day R introduction taught at Cambridge's Graduate School of Life Sciences Training.
• Authors: Robert Stojnic, Laurent Gatto, Rob Foy, David Molnar and John Davey, based on original slides by Ian Roberts and Robert Stojnic.
• Original repository: https://github.com/johnomics/basicr/
• Course page: http://logic.sysbiol.cam.ac.uk/teaching/Rcourse/
• Download the slides for day 1 and day 2 in pdf.

R functional programming

• Description: A short topic section on functional programming in R
• Author: Laurent Gatto
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/R-functional-programming
• More details: README
• Download the pdf

R vectorisation

• Description: A short topic section on vectorisation in R
• Author: Laurent Gatto
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/R-vectorisation
• More details: README
• Download the pdf

R debugging

• Description: A short topic section on debugging in R
• Author: Laurent Gatto and Robert Stojnić
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/R-debugging
• More details: README
• Download the pdf

R parallel

• Description: A short topic section on parallal computing in R
• Author: Laurent Gatto and Robert Stojnić
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/R-parallel
• More details: README
• Download the pdf

R object oriented programming

• Description: Covers S3, S4 and S4 Reference Classes OO programming using DNA/RNA sequence data manipulation as a working example.
• Author: Laurent Gatto and Robert Stojnić
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/roo
• More details: README
• Download the pdf

One day course on R OO programming and package development

• Description: A short 1-day course about R object-oriented programming, package development and various other topics (C interface, unit testing, debugging). See also other more recent and detailed lessons about these topic on this page.
• Author: Laurent Gatto and Robert Stojnić
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/advr1
• More details: README
• Download the pdf

Short S4 tutorial

• Description: A practical S4 object-oriented programming tutorial using microarrays as a working example.
• Author: Laurent Gatto
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/S4-tutorial
• More details: README
• Download the pdf

R programming tutorial

• Description: A tutorial on R programming of intermediate level, focusing on some aspects of functional programming, profiling, testing, debugging and parallelisation. Used as more advanced R programming lecture during the CSAMA workshop.
• Author: Laurent Gatto
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/R-programming
• More details: README
• Download the pdf

R and C/C++

• Description: Writing and calling C/C++ code for/from R
• Author: Laurent Gatto
• Many examples from the Rcpp gallery and from Dirk's slides.
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/rccpp
• More details: README
• Download the pdf

visualisation

• Description: visualising data using ggplot2 (more to come soon)
• Author: Mark Dunning
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/visualisation
• Download the pdf

sequences

• Description: Educational package used in R to illustrate OO programming and package development
• Author: Laurent Gatto and Robert Stojnić
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/sequences
• More details: DESCRIPTION
• Installation from CRAN: install.packages("sequences")
• Installation from github (requires R and C/C++ building tools):

library(devtools)
install_github("lgatto/sequences")

Best practices in bioinformatics research: open source software and reproducibility

• Description: A short course for a Bioinformatics minor at the University of Cambridge. What is open science (data, source/code, access), and how can we enable it? What is reproducible research, and why do we need it and how can we implement it? The objective is to familiarise students with concepts and tools of open science and reproducible research.
• Author: Laurent Gatto
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/open-rr-bioinfo-best-practice

Beginner's statistics in R

• Description: A 2.5 days introductionary course focusing on R and basics statistics for proteomics scientists. The R intruduction material is based on the Data Carpentry R analysis lesson and leads to the introduction and application of basic uni-variate statistics using proteomics data. The course was developed and taught as part of the May Institute, at the Northeastern University, Boston, MA in May 2017.
• Authors: Laurent Gatto and Meena Choi, with material from the Data Carpentry R lesson.
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/2017-05-03-RstatsIntro-NEU

Statistics primer

• Description: A short course for a Bioinformatics minor at the University of Cambridge. Introducing basic concepts in statistics: experimental design, randomisation, technical and biological variation, power analysis, hypothesis testing, confidence interval, what is a p-value, false discovery rate, multiple testing adjustment, dangers of uninformed statistical practice. The objective is familiarise students with basic statistical concepts and initiate them to statistical thinking. They should be able to critically assess an experimental design and the reporting of a simple statistical analysis.
• Author: Laurent Gatto
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/statistics-primer
• Slides on experimental desing, significance testing, and practical.

Inspection, visualisation and analysis of quantitative proteomics data

• Description: A discussion I lead in the frame of the Quantitative Proteomics and Data Analysis Course.
• Author: Laurent Gatto
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/Quantitative-Proteomics-and-Data-Analysis
• Slides (http://bit.ly/qprotda) and reproducible vignette (http://bit.ly/qprotdavig)

R and Bioconductor for Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics data analysis

• Description: Material for the 2-day R/Bioconductor Proteomics Workshop at Stellenbosch University, October 2016
• Author: Laurent Gatto
• Original repository: https://github.com/lgatto/2016-10-rbioc-prot-Stellenbosch

An Introduction to Machine Learning with R

• Description: This introductory workshop on machine learning with R is aimed at participants who are not experts in machine learning (introductory material will be presented as part of the course), but have some familiarity with scripting in general and R in particular. The workshop will offer a hands-on overview of typical machine learning applications in R, including unsupervised (clustering, such as hierarchical and k-means clustering, and dimensionality reduction, such as principal component analysis) and supervised (classification and regression, such as K-nearest neighbour and linear regression) methods. We will also address questions such as model selection using cross-validation.
• Author: Laurent Gatto
• Original repository: https://lgatto.github.io/IntroMachineLearningWithR/
• Direct access to the material: bookdown formatted

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