About the workshop

This is a introductory-level R workshop designed to give a brief overview of the R language, and some small bioinformatics tasks that function as stand-alone examples of the skills that a budding bioinformaticist should have in their toolbox. The workshop was designed by Gabriella Morgenshtern and Cait Harrigan, with reference to learning units developed by Dr. Boris Steipe. It runs in about 1 hour, although we also deliver a version that includes basics of statistical modelling in R, which runs in 2 hours.

If you are attending the workshop: please come prepared.

We provide instructions for how to download and install the following required software ahead of time.

The workshop is constructed to feature 3 milestones:

  1. Introduction to R skills
  2. Data cleaning and exploration
  3. Data visualization and data-driven biological reasoning

We encourage the practice of pair programming

Supporting scripts and other materials can be found on the workshop github page.

To request a workshop

please send an email, and CC both organizers.

Gabriela Morgenshtern: g.morgenshtern[at]mail.utoronto.ca

Cait Harrigan: cait.harrigan[at]mail.utoronto.ca