Primary Contributors

Although this course is taught at OSU by Dr. Peter R. Hoyt, the original course materials and website design have been primarily developed and implemented by Ethan White and Zachary Brym in cooperation with Data Carpentry. See our contributors page for more details. More recent genomics lessons from the Carpentries were developed thanks to genomics data experts , genomics wrangling experts and shell experts who should be appreciated. You can cite the material used in this course using the follwing DOI:

Annotations indicating specific contributors are scattered throughout the lessons, but there are inevitably some contributors not mentioned, and if they contact me I’ll gladly add their names or links to this list. The curricula are made available through the Creative Commons License

Philosophy

This particular course by Dr. Hoyt emphasizes making the curricula more understandable for a specific target audience of Life Scientists, who are truly beginners, and who want or need to be better. To strive toward this goal Dr. Hoyt will embrace The Carpentries active learning pedagogy and aspire to improve the course through practices of education experts including Dr. Rochelle Tractenberg who developed the Mastery Rubric for Bioinformatics published in PlOS ONE and described in an interview by Jason Williams on the Life Science Trainers website. See also her poster and slides from ISMB/ECCB 2019 availble through F1000 and The GOBLET Foundation.

Diversity

Oklahoma State University is proudly committed to promoting diversity and inclusion within higher education. This course follows those proud commitments. For more information inclusion and diversity awards, enrollment, and resources, please read about OSU’s Institutional Diversity Office. The Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Chief Diversity Officer at OSU is Dr. Jason F. Kirksey.

Funding

Dr. Hoyt is generously supported by the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Office of the Vice President for Research at Oklahoma State University. The initial development of this course, was supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Data-Driven Discovery Initiative through grants to Ethan White GBMF4563 and GBMF4855, and by an NSF CAREER award. As these curricula become more diverse it will be difficult to maintain a list of all funding sources, but we will try.

The Carpentries

Dr. Hoyt and OSU participate in The Carpentries community. The Carpentries are an organization that teaches foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide. Our lesson is based on Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry workshops. To participate you are expected to follow the Code of Conduct. We are a diverse, global community of volunteers. Our community includes Instructors, helpers, Trainers, Maintainers, Mentors, community champions, member organizations, supporters, workshop organizers, staff and a whole lot more.

Data Carpentry

Data Carpentry is a web and workshop based organization that is designed to teach basic computing concepts, skills, and tools for working with scientific data. The resources provided on this site are being developed in association with Data Carpentry.

Software Carpentry

Software Carpentry has been teaching scientists and engineers the concepts, skills, and tools they need to use and build software more productively since 1977. All of the content is freely available under a Creative Commons license (the same one we use here). The existence of this content saves me a massive amount of time and effort, and inspired me to show other Life Scientists that programming knowledge is essential, and that programming well is achievable.

Infrastructure

The site is built using Jekyll with the Hyde theme from Poole and icons from Font Awesome by Dave Gandy.