Computational Biology (Botany 4550/5550) -- Fall 2009

Instructor: Alex Buerkle
Class meetings: Earth Sciences Building 1004, 3:10-5:00 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday

Course wiki (restricted to class participants)

Course syllabus (fall 2009, pdf)

Course materials:

1. Dalgaard, P. 2008. Introductory Statistics with R. 2^nd edition. Springer-Verlag, New York. (ISwR)
2. R. L. Schwartz and T. Christiansen. 2008. Learning Perl. 5^th edition. O'Reilly and Associates. (LP)
3. Additional materials will be distributed in class or linked from the course website.

Both books are available from the bookstore, including some used copies. Of course, they are also available online. Please purchase these editions of the books and have the ISwR (Dalgaard) book in the first week of classes, so that you can complete the reading assignment for Thursday.

• R statistical software
• Download R
• R FAQ

UC-Berkeley Stat Labs links:

• Data for Stat Labs (local copy)
• FAQ on using R

Statistics and probability

• Introduction to Statistical Thought (Michael Lavine, Duke University) -- free book with strong statistics and probability material, as well as R code.