Course Resources and Links
Books
Metagenomics GitBook by Ken Youens-Clark and Bonnie Hurwitz; all computational notes are here!
Bioinformatics Data Skills – a great resource for learning about working with large-scale sequence data and basic bioinformatics skills. We cover many of these topics in our class.
I contain multitudes: the microbes within us and a grander view of life – new best seller and fantastic overview to the importance of microbes on, in, and around us.
Github
Github – used for code version control and sharing assignments with instructors.
Github Desktop – This is an easy to use program to interface with your github repository. This can be used with either mac or PC.
Ken’s ABE487 Github repo – Answers to homework and example code for the class.
Unix
Bash docs
Code Academy
The Art of the Command Line
Perl
Learn Perl 6 in Y Minutes
Perl 6 Docs
Perl 6 Modules
Other courses in programming for Biology
Berkeley bioinfo course (Python)
Berkeley bioinfo course (Perl 5)
Programming for Biology (Stein, Perl 5)