Master R: Advanced Data Analytics for Life Sciences & Research Careers in 4 weeks through hands-on, project-based online training with DSTC.
Data Science & Analytics
Module-by-module breakdown of R: Advanced Data Analytics for Life Sciences & Research Careers, from foundations to a certified capstone project.
Foundations
โข Tidy data structures for experimental designs with nested factors
โข Reading instrument and plate-reader exports without silent coercion errors
โข Reproducible project structure with renv and Quarto
Design
โข Replication, pseudoreplication and the unit of analysis
โข ANOVA, mixed models and repeated measures in R
โข Power analysis before the experiment rather than after a null result
Bioconductor
โข Bioconductor object model: SummarizedExperiment and friends
โข Differential expression with DESeq2 or limma
โข Annotation, enrichment and visualisation of results
Visualisation
โข ggplot2 for multi-panel figures with consistent theming
โข Showing distributions and individual points instead of bar-and-error-bar plots
โข Export at journal-required dimensions and resolution
Career
โข Version control and sharing analysis with collaborators
โข Writing a supplementary methods section from your own code
โข Building a portfolio of reproducible analyses for research roles
e-Certificate and e-Marksheet issued on successful completion.