Bioinformatics, AI and Data Science Training - Botswana (BHP/HSPH). Forked and customised from elsherbini/durban-data-science-for-biology.
# Bioinformatics Series in Botswana
Workshop website for **Bioinformatics, AI and Data Science Training**, hosted in
Gaborone by the Botswana Harvard Partnership (BHP) and the Harvard T.H. Chan
School of Public Health (HSPH).
## Instructions on contributing to the website
1. clone the repo locally
2. make changes - you can preview changes locally by clicking "Render Website" in the Build tab in RStudio, or by running `quarto preview` in the terminal.
3. commit changes and push to the `bhl-customisation` branch
4. run `quarto publish gh-pages` to render the website and update the github.io content
### Requirements
- Quarto 1.4 or later
- R 4.3.1 or later
```r
install.packages(c("tidyverse", "here", "knitr", "rmarkdown", "quarto"))
```
Session materials need more — see installation-instructions.qmd
for the full list, including the Bioconductor packages (`DESeq2`, `edgeR`,
`limma`, `mixOmics`, `ggtree`) and the standalone tools (AliView, IQ-TREE 3,
FigTree 1.4.4, BEAST 1.10.5).
## Repository layout
```
├── _quarto.yml site config, navbar and sidebar
├── index.qmd landing page: overview, schedule, instructors
├── about.qmd teaching team, partners, contact
├── past_workshops.qmd Sept 2025 Virus Evolution & Genomics Workshop
├── installation-instructions.qmd
├── exercises.qmd Day 1 + Day 2 exercises
└── materials/
├── 1-welcome/ welcome session
├── 2-ml-session/ Random Forest — HIV/SIV rebound
├── 3-bulk-rnaseq/ DESeq2 + GSEA
├── 1-intro-bioinfo-ai/ what is bioinformatics / AI / data science
├── 2-ai-application/ ML foundations → LLMs (5 modules)
├── 3-bioinformatics-application/ QC → phylogenetics (4 modules)
├── 4-hands-on/ mtDNA case study (synthetic data)
├── 5-survey/ feedback
├── 6-mutations/ HIV-1 mutations & minority variants
└ …