Welcome to the Bioinformatics course at University College Dublin! This repository contains all code, data, and teaching materials for the 2nd week and 2026 cohort. The course provides hands-on training in computational methods for analyzing biological data, with a focus on practical bioinformatics workflows using modern tools and programming languages.
- Institution: University College Dublin (UCD)
- Instructor: Mery Touceda-Suárez
- Year: 2026
- Format: In-person
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand fundamental bioinformatics concepts and data structures
- Work with biological sequence data
- Follow bioinformatics pipelines
- Write and debug bioinformatics scripts in R and/or Python
- Analyze and visualize biological data
ucd_bioinformaticscourse_2026/
├── data/ # Sample datasets and input files
├── scripts/ # Bioinformatics scripts and code examples
├── slides/ # Lecture slides and presentations
└── README.md # This file
data/: Sample datasets used throughout the course, including sequence files, metadata, and example datasets for hands-on exercisesscripts/: R scripts demonstrating bioinformatics analysisslides/: Lecture slides covering theoretical concepts and practical demonstrations
| Day | Date | Morning | Afternoon |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monday June 29th | R programming basics | Data analysis and visualization in R |
| 2 | Tuesday June 30th | Intro to Omics + Metagenomics 1 | Metagenomics 1 exercise: from taxonomy to function |
| 3 | Wednesday July 1st | Metagenomics 2: viruses, plasmids | [Metagenomics 2 exercise: viral refinement and ecology |
| 4 | Thursday July 2nd | RNA-seq & Transcriptomics | Differential expression and Networks in R |
| 5 | Friday July 3d | Bonus: Hot topics in Bioinformatics | Exam |
This repository is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE file for details.
Instructor: Mery Touceda-Suárez
- Email: mtouced@ncsu.edu
- GitHub: @merytouceda
Last Updated: June 2026
For the most current information, please check this repository regularly.