Recommended Courses & Resources
Welcome! If you’re new to coding or want to learn key tools used in bioinformatics and data science, here are some great free online resources to get you started.
Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)
IDEs are software applications that provide an environment for writing, debugging, running and testing code. There are several options, but two popular options are RStudio and Visual Studio code (VSCode).
R & RStudio installation
VSCode installation
R Programming (tidyverse & Data Science)
Getting started with R and RStudio A free and basic course of R and Rstudio. Here you will find instructions on how to install R and Rstudio and some practical examples.
Basic Basics Another basic course in R which includes some videos.
Clean it up Basics on data cleaning.
R for Data Science (R4DS) 2nd edition
A free, comprehensive online book by Hadley Wickham that teaches R with the tidyverse ecosystem. Hands-on and beginner-friendly.tidyverse.org - Learn
Official tidyverse tutorials and resources curated for learning modern R packages.