Training Resources

Internal Resources

• 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.
  • Events and 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, maintaint 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.
  • The Unix Shell
  • Version Control with Git
  • Programming with Python
  • Programming with R
• Data Carpentries Lessons: Primary page for the Data Carpentry lessons. Instructional material is available for a variety of fields.
  • Genomics Curriculum
  • Image Processing Curriculum

Other External Resources

• Rosalind.info: A platform for learning bioinformatics and programming.

Our Social Media Presence

• YouTube
• GitHub: Contains several repos used on the YouTube channel.

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Last update: April 12, 2023