education shield

DnA lab list of tools to learn Bioinformatics

Nov. 6, 2023

PAY FOR CODING lessons https://www.codecademy.com/ https://www.datacamp.com/ FREE CODING lessons General Sequencing: Short read workshop: http://dna.colorado.edu/ShortRead/ Science-based: https://datacarpentry.org/lessons/ Python: Introduction to python by Microsoft- very good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFCNu1-Xdsw&list=PLlrxD0HtieHhS8VzuMCfQD4uJ9yne1mE6 Jacob Stanley (DnA lab) workshop on python: https://github.com/jtstanley/DS2_materials Python for biologists: https://www.pythonforbiologists.org/ Introduction to pandas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmEHCJofslg Dataset used: https://github.com/KeithGalli/pandas More pandas stuff: https://nikgrozev.com/2015/12/27/pandas-in-jupyter-quickstart-and-useful-snippets/ The...

R logo

R for beginingers

June 7, 2023

This video demonstrates the use of R for people that have never coded before. I taught this class over Zoom for the Facebook group Ph.D. Mamas, because there was a large discussion about the best ways to learn R if you have never used R before. You can learn R...

Goodwin lab 2022

Before, During, and After I Learned My PI Falsified Data

June 7, 2023

I recently talked at the NIH (via zoom) about " Before, During, and After I Learned My PI Falsified Data". This website has a video of the talk if you'd like to learn more. This is an article that was written right after the misconduct situation. This is an article...

Graduate Student Resources at CU Boulder

Oct. 24, 2022

Never forget that if you are a graduate student at CU Boulder, you are an essential community member. As a member of the community, If you need resources, you should be able to get them. You are not alone! Do you need: Ideas for dealing with stress Take this online...

Have a Ph.D. and want to try something new?

April 1, 2022

“Talent is extremely important. It’s like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.” Elon Musk We are starting a new program at the University of Colorado -Boulder,...

Differential expression using Deseq2

Oct. 14, 2019

Often the goal of a RNA-seq type experiment is to find differentially expressed genes. Below I give guidelines for calling differential expression. Idea behind differental expression programs Imagine you do RNA-seq on 6 samples that are all biological replicated of each other. When you analyze them, you split them into...

Graphing tools

Feb. 28, 2019

When I first got into bioinformatics one of the things I needed to learn quickly was how to graph with very large tabels of data. Below are some of my favorite websites for learning how to graph big data. A great webstie with instructions on using R https://datacarpentry.org/R-ecology-lesson/index.html (Links to...

kids not sharing

Sharing Data

Nov. 15, 2018

Do authors of scientific publications have to share data? If you are funded by NIH or NSF the answer is yes. Additionally, most journals have a statement saying they will not publish a paper if the data is not made available. For instance, the journal Nature requires all data to...

Journal stack

Peer Review

Nov. 8, 2018

Is Peer review a good idea? The New York times has just relised an article questioning peer review. Even the public is worried. Should we be?

Tools

Some useful online tools/lessons I've found

Oct. 10, 2018

What is this seq protocol? I've never heard of it! my three-letter seq definition Where can I learn more about sequencing or bioinformatics? RNA-seq tutorial R tutorial (If you are a biologist, the ecology lesson is just as helpful as the genomics lesson. Do both.) Short read sequencing anaysis by...

Pages