Five short handbooks of learning notes and primers
2026-09-27
Welcome. This library publishes practical technical notes as five short handbooks, covering genomics, Databricks, software engineering for bioinformatics, statistics, and laboratory data generation. They started as learning notes and primers.
Each handbook stands on its own, with its own table of contents. Choose one below.
Primers on reading a DNA sequence, and on interpreting genomic sequence models with DeepLIFT and DeepExplainer.
Notes on SQL, Spark, pipelines, dimensional modelling, analytics queries, and Chemprop for drug discovery on Databricks.
Practical notes on Git, UNIX, maintainable Python, Julia, reliable data products, and the engineering ideas that keep bioinformatics work reproducible.
Open Software Engineering for Bioinformatics
Primers on exploratory data analysis and the craft of data visualisation.
Laboratory primers on extraction, PCR, gels, western blotting, and recombinant DNA, written for people who use the data those methods produce.