Workshop Plants & Python
a series of lessons in coding, plant biology, computation, and bioinformatics / una serie de lecciones de programación, biología vegetal, cómputo, y bioinformática.
Instructors: Dr. Alejandara Rougon Cardoso (UNAM ENES León), Dr. Daniel Chitwood (Michigan State University) and Dr. Robert VanBuren (Michigan State University).
What will you need? A laptop computer with WiFi connectivity. We will be using a public, bilingual resource available at the following link:
Plants & Python
Workshop summary:
In this workshop, instructors Dr. Rougon Cardoso, Dr. Chitwood and Dr. VanBuren will introduce you to Plants & Python: a series of lessons in coding, plant biology, computation, and bioinformatics. Students and researchers who have no coding experience but would like to learn Python and Bash to use for modeling, statistics, data analysis, or bioinformatics should take this course to get started. Participants in this workshop will download the necessary tools to begin using Python and an interactive coding environment called Jupyter notebooks. Students will learn basic coding strategies, including how to plot data and how to construct a loop using plant-inspired examples. In this introductory course, students will also learn how to access the command line and use UNIX (Bash) commands for data mining. We expect this workshop to be small (no more than 25 participants) with lots of interaction and individual student attention.
For registration: smbplantbiologycongress@gmail.com