Getting started in computational biology

These are slides based on a lecture I gave in the course CMSE 491: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology taught in Spring 2018 at Michigan State University on Monday, January 2. This presentation covers the following topics and is meant to be a "getting started" guide to computational biology research. Reading papers | Learning to frame a problem Choosing a good problem Data types and repositories Programming languages & software ecosystems Organizing a computational biology project Managing data and code High-performance computing at MSU Getting hel