Welcome to the shiny new BU Bioinformatics Computational Workshop series!

These workshops are designed to help you learn computational skills that are required by modern bioinformatics and computational biology. More specifically, the workshops are designed to help you learn how to use large language models (LLMs) responsibly as tools to enhance and extend your abilities. The workshops are centered around a fictitious but realistic story about a genomics lab that studies ancient human DNA.

Workshop Overview

• Workshop Overview

Materials

• Practical LLM Primer

Workshops

• Workshop 1: Download and Explore Ancient DNA Data
• Workshop 2: Scaling Up and Using the Compute Cluster
• Workshop 3: Workflow Automation with Snakemake
• Workshop 4: Comparative Analysis of Multiple Ancient Samples
• Workshop 5: Authenticating Ancient DNA and Quality Control
• Workshop 6: Reproducibility and Collaboration

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Bioinformatics Computational Workshops © 2025 by Adam Labadorf and Boston University is licensed under CC BY 4.0