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Computational Biology, Ecology, & Evolution

ComBEE is a group of researchers at UW-Madison interested in computational biology in ecology and evolution.

Skill Sharing

Share your favorite coding skills and tools with your friends and colleagues.

Co-Working

Get together to work on your coding projects, help each other out and share your work.

Community Building

Meet new people in your field, organization or community.

Study Groups

We currently offer Python and R Study Group (staring July 2023), and have temporarily discontinued the omics study group in favor of monthly meetings about omics topics. We welcome all experience levels to learn new topics and help others achieve their analytical goals. Follow the links below to find archived notes, code, and lessons as well as topics that we are currently learning!

Python Study Group R Study Group

Monthly ComBEE Events:

Join us at one of our study groups or monthly seminars!.

Month Event Event Information Additional Information
January 2024 Social Kick-Off Event event information Please RSVP
February 2024 Campus Research and Data Science Services event information
March 2024 Automating workflows: Example from Metagenome-Assembled Genomes Information to come
April 2024 Machine Learning in Biology event information
May 2024 Data Visualization Art Showcase Information to come
November 2023 Intro the Center for High Throughput Computing and Q&A
October 2023 Bash Scripting and Awk

Contact Us

Join our Google Group to get notifications and emails about R and Python Study Groups and ComBEE Events, or email us with any questions!

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Links and Resources

Groups and resources for coding and research

Data Carpentry
Introductory lessons on data organization and visualization for research.
Software Carpentry
Introductory lessons on various topics in computing for research.
UW-Madison DoIT Software Training for Students
UW-Madison Division of Information Services offers Software Training for Students on a variety of introductory topics.
Bioinformatics Resource Center
The BRC is a resource within the UW Biotechnology Center that assists researchers with their data analysis needs.
Quantitative Biology Initiative
QBI hosts interdisciplinary seminars relavent to computational, statistical, and quantitative biology.
Campus Computing Infrastructure
Delivers shared, scalable IT infrastructure services for server hosting, storage, and backup.
Center for High Throughput Computing
Supports scalable computing resources and services for the UW System.
Data Science Hub
Resource for connecting data science at the UW-Madison campus.