The quantitative methods boot camp: teaching quantitative thinking and computing skills to graduate students in the life sciences.

ABSTRACT: The past decade has seen a rapid increase in the ability of biologists to collect large amounts of data. It is therefore vital that research biologists acquire the necessary skills during their training to visualize, analyze, and interpret such data. To begin to meet this need, we have developed a "boot camp" in quantitative methods for biology graduate students at Harvard Medical School. The goal of this short, intensive course is to enable students to use computational tools to visualize and analyze data, to strengthen their computational thinking skills, and to simulate and thus extend their intuition about the behavior of complex biological systems. The boot camp teaches basic programming using biological examples from statistics, image processing, and data analysis. This integrative a

SUBMITTER: Stefan MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4399943 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature