Training Resources¶
Internal Resources¶
- AI at UAB: AI-related resources, available to UAB Employees and the broader community, encompassing safety protocols, ethical principles, and diverse applications of AI, including current trends.
- Informatics Club: A UAB group for students and trainees to learn more about informatics.
- Code, Chat & Collab: A recurring meet-up hosted by the Informatics Club where students, staff and faculty can meet to discuss informatics, data analysis, software development, and Cheaha use.
- Resources: A collection of useful resources provided by the Informatics club.
- LinkedIn Learning: Online courses available for free to UAB employees. Topics include programming, data science, and more.
External Resources¶
The Carpentries¶
The Carpentries is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to educating researchers on software and data skills. Using inclusive and accessibly best practices, they build, maintain and promote high-quality instructional material for a range of software and data-oriented concepts.
- Software Carpentries Lessons: Primary page for the Software Carpentry lessons. The following lessons, and more, are available.
- Data Carpentries Lessons: Primary page for the Data Carpentry lessons. Instructional material is available for a variety of fields.
- HPC Carpentries: a page dedicated to sharing HPC-oriented, high-quality, peer-reviewed lessons following Carpentries' teaching standards. Start your journey into High-Performance Computing with the Introduction to HPC page.
- Introduction to Deep Learning: (still in development) a course designed to provide researchers with an introductory first step to deep learning.
Rigor & Reproducibility Tools¶
- Community for Rigor: a group of scientists from various universities and research institutions in the United States has collaborated to develop educational materials aimed at facilitating the teaching and learning of the principles and practices of scientific rigor.
Data Management¶
Bioinformatics, Genetics, and Genomics¶
- Rosalind.info: A platform for learning bioinformatics and programming.
- Transcriptomics: A course teaching students to independently analyze high-throughput sequencing data from gene expression (RNA-seq) studies using lightweight, open-source software and the R programming language with Bioconductor packages.
- Alphafold: The tutorial is provided by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. The course includes activities, quizzes, and videos designed to help users understand the fundamental concepts behind AlphaFold, learn how to run protein predictions, and explore how AlphaFold has been used to advance research.
Other External Resources¶
- MATLAB upcoming events: MATLAB offers a range of upcoming events, including data-oriented, programming-oriented, and domain-specific training sessions. Many of these events are free to attend.
Suggested Reading¶
- Simple rules for efficient scientific programming: provide 10 rules for efficient code writing to boost research productivity.
- Good enough practices in scientific computing: a set of good computing practices that every researcher can adopt, regardless of their current level of computational skill. Further reading available at Software Carpentries github
- Cookiecutter Data Science: an adaptable project structure for performing and sharing data science works.
UAB Research Resources¶
UAB provides a broad set of research support services that fall primarily under two research administrative groups: the Office of Research and the Institutional Research Core Program (IRCP). These groups oversee compliance offices, shared facilities, interdisciplinary research programs, and research infrastructure that support UAB researchers across disciplines. The resources below are organized according to the group that manages them
Resources Under the Office of Research¶
- Office of Research oversees university-wide research operations, including compliance, funding, and partnerships.
- Institutional Review Board (IRB) ensures that research involving human participants upholds ethical and regulatory standards. If you need to submit new protocols, review training requirements, access forms and templates for your research please reach out to them.
- Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) oversees research involving animal subjects to ensure humane care and compliance.
- University-Wide Interdisciplinary Research Centers Program (UWIRC Program) Directory lists centers that promote cross-disciplinary collaboration across UAB. Each center fosters partnerships, provides shared facilities, and supports pilot funding or training programs.
- Core Facility Directory to find and contact available shared research resources at UAB.
Resources Under the Institutional Research Core Program (IRCP)¶
- The Institutional Research Core Program (IRCP) coordinates university-wide investment in shared research infrastructure. You can visit the IRCP main site for program overviews. Or access their IRCP Core Facilities listing for specialized labs and instrumentation.
- Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data Resource provides de-identified and limited data sets from electronic health records for approved research projects.
- UAB Biomedical Data Science (UBDS) provides computational biology and biomedical data science services that include data analysis, interpretation, training, and grant support, with a focus on genomics, transcriptomics, systems biology, and translational medicine.