BIO144 Course Book

Preface

This book contains content of the first six Monday lectures of the course BIO144 Data Analysis in Biology at the University of Zurich. Information for the remaining lectures are available on the OLAT course website.

Making a copy for yourself

If you’d like a copy of this book for yourself, there are a couple of ways:

• From your web browser print a PDF of a chapter of the book. Sometime graphs will be displayed across a page, which is not so nice. Sorry. But it should be ok for your learning and to make notes on.
• You can get all of the source code for the book from the GitHub repository. However, you may find it a little complicated to do anything useful with it!

How this book was made

The book was written using a type of RMarkdown. It allows a script with a mix of normal text and R code to produce chapters and a book that has a mixture of text, R code, and R output. Rmarkdown is very useful for making reports, books, presentations, and even websites.

This book is a Quarto book. To learn more about Quarto books visit https://quarto.org/docs/books.

Acknowledgements

The content was based on lectures originally written by Dr Stefanie Muff.

The content of the book was written with the assistance of Github Copilot, an AI tool that helps write code and text.