- Sept 3 (Wed) - Course Introduction & Lab 1: Introduction to Unity, R and RStudio
- Sept 8 (Mon) - Discussion of research project possibilities
- Sept 10 (Wed) - Lab 2: Coding in R with generative AI
- Sept 15 (Mon) - Project background research - Adding references to Quarto documents using Zotero
- Sept 17 (Wed) - Lab 3: Data Transformation with dyplr
- Sept 22 (Mon) - Discussion of research project possibilities
- Sept 24 (Wed) - Lab 4: Coding Basics, Style and Data Read/Write
- Sept 29 (Mon) - Discussion of the NEON data set and projects
- Oct 1 (Wed) - Lab 5 : Working with NEON Metagenome Assembled Genomes (MAGs/bins)
- Oct 6 (Mon) - Lab S2 : Adding References to Your Report with Zotero
- Oct 8 (Wed) - Lab 6: ggplotting with NEON MAG data
- Oct 13 (Mon) Holiday – Indigenous People’s Day
- Oct 15 (Wed) - Lab 7 : Data Tidying, Transformation and Visualization with COVID-19 reporting data
- Oct 20 (Mon) - Dr. Jennifer DeBruyn - All Ooze Considered
- Oct 22 (Wed) - Lab 8: Metagenome brainstorming with AI
- Oct 27 (Mon) - Lab S3 : Connecting a Github repo site with a new RStudio project
- Oct 29 (Wed) - Lab 9 - Sequence Alignment, Phylogenetic Analysis and Tree Visualization
- Nov 3 (Mon) - Lab S4 : Working on the command line in Terminal with Shell
- Nov 5 (Wed) - Lab 10 : Detecting Patterns in Regular Expression
- Nov 10 (Mon) - Lab S5 : Running bioinformatics software interactively and in batches
- Nov 12 (Wed) - Lab 11 : Joining Data Frames
- Nov 17 (Mon) - Catch up
- Nov 19 (Wed) - Lab 12 : Accessing NEON Metadata for Metagenomics
- Nov 24 (Mon) - Lab S6 : AI assisted analysis of the NEON MAG taxonomy, soil chemistry and location data - Part I
- Nov 26 (Wed) Holiday - Thanksgiving
- Dec 1 (Mon) - Lab S7 : AI assisted analysis of the NEON MAG taxonomy, soil chemistry and location data - Part II
- Dec 3 (Wed) - Lab 13 : Creating a detailed report with explanations from the NEON MAG data
- Dec 8 (Mon) - Wrap up and course survey