Tools for Reproducible Research
Date and Time
Location
Online Workshop dates and times:
Friday, November 14, 2025: 9:30 AM - 12 PM
Tuesday, November 18, 2025: 9:30 AM - 12 PM
Friday, November 21, 2025: 9:30 AM - 12 PM
NOTE: Workshop dates are subject to change - please check back!
Instruction will be mostly learner-centric, requiring a time commitment between the workshop sessions!
Description:
Rigorous science requires that the science is reproducible. However, investigations of bioinformatics approaches have found that results are oftentimes difficult to reproduce. Therefore, in this hands-on workshop we will:
- Implement git to handle version control
- Use GitHub and GitHub Desktop to store and distribute your code
- Employ RMarkdown for creating reports
Prerequisites:
This is one of our advanced workshops, and assumes that users have a working knowledge of coding with R or have attended the following Basic workshop offered by our training team in the last 6-8 months:
There is an expectation of participants to have some/all of the following programming knowledge:
- Solid understanding of data structures and fluent implementation of basic syntax in R.
- Ability to use functions regularly and can modify arguments when necessary.
- Comfortable installing packages and troubleshooting issues.
- Data wrangling expertise (subsetting vectors and data frames) using base R or tidyverse
- Familiarity with ggplot2 for data visualization.
I am fluent in R but have not attended the HBC prerequisite workshop, can I still register?
Yes, please register and provide your R/programming exerience on the form, and we’ll get back to you.