CMEE Coursework

MRes Computational Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Contents

Week 1

• Introduction to Unix and Linux
  • Shell scripting
  • Version control with Git
  • Scientific documents with LaTex

Week 2

• Biological computing in Python -1
  • Variables, operators and data structures
  • Input/output
  • Writing programs
  • Unit testing and debugging
  • Functions, modules and code compartmentalization

Week 3

• Biological computing in R
  • Variables, operators and data structures
  • Input/output
  • Writing programs
  • Unit testing and debugging
  • Functions, modules and code compartmentalization
  • Data wrangling
  • Visualisation

Week 4

• Statistics
  • No coursework for this week

Week 5

• GIS
  • No coursework for this week

Week 6

• Genomics
  • No coursework for this week

Week 7

• Biological computing in Python -2
  • Numerical computing in Python
  • Introduction to numpy and scipy
  • Plotting in Python
  • Networks
  • Regular expressions
  • Building workflows

Week 8

• Mini-project hackathon
  • No coursework for this week

Week 9

• High Performance Computing
  • Neutral theory simulations
  • Fractals

Authors

• Hannah O'Sullivan

License

I don't have one

Acknowledgments

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