Tips for Newbies

Welcome!

Thanks for reading this post¹. We have some tips in order to help you to join the group and understand how we work and what we are doing.

First of all, it is important that you understand that you will need to learn a number of things about (surprise!) genetics and also statistics.

This will be mostly covered on the courses you will take, papers you will read, and meeting you will have you your advisor and with other students.

Other than that, you will need to learn a number of things related on how to use this new knowledge for doing your research. This is what this post is about: presenting you to computing tools that you will not learn on regular courses.

All statistical geneticists must have at least some basic knowledge on all topics below. The good news is that they are extremely useful and will help you for the rest of your career. Even better, we are here to help! That’s what our Lab is about.

• Linux
• Writing computer programs
• R
• git
• github
• Emacs
• LaTeX

Don’t feel intimidated with this list! There are a number of good tutorials that we will recommend. We also have our own texts. In the future, you can share your experience by improving the tutorials you read.

All of these topics will have a post on the Lab’s website. Go there and start learning!

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