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Course module: B-MBIOINR
B-MBIOINR
Introduction to R for Life Sciences
Course info
Course codeB-MBIOINR
EC3
Course goals
General:
Nowadays almost all disciplines in medical and biological sciences have to deal with an increasing amount of data. These datasets get simply to large or structurally to complicated that general programs are not sufficient anymore. This is where another approach, using a programming language, such as R,  is not only very much preferred but basically essential.
 
 
Learning goals:
Primarily skills but also knowledge and insight on using R for Life sciences research.
 
The aim of this course is to provide students with the basics of programming in R.
Students will learn how to use basic functions of R via R-studio and at the end investigate and visualize gene expression data by self-made scripts.
 
Skills
The student can: Use R-studio and, write a script to answer a life sciences related question. Including the following topics
  • Data types, structures
  • Write and use functions
  • Data import, handling
  • Figures
  • Basic statistics
  • Flow control
  • Packages
Content
Content:
In this course, the focus is on learning the basics of the programming language R. Using examples and exercises on life-sciences related topics the individual topics are learned first, after which the focus switches on combining the different topics to practice the “logic” of programming.
 
After this course the student has obtained the skills to self-sufficiently use R and R-studio.
 
 
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