This is the legacy version of the Coding Club page!
It remains available as a reference to the old format.
Click here to visit the current version of page.
offers a weekly incentive and opportunity
for EMBL researchers of all backgrounds
to improve their computational skills through assisted self-study.
Should You join the Coding Club?
Are you...
...aspiring to enrich your research by incorporating more computational biology?
...eager to make your life easier and save time by automating repetitive work?
...looking to improve your ability to communicate and collaborate with computational biologists?
The best and only way of achieving these goals is regular and proactive engagement with coding and computational biology through courses and, more importantly, through self-study.
Unfortunately, our challenging day-to-day work often discourages us from sitting down for a couple of hours to expand our horizon. For this exact reason, the coding club exists: it is an incentive for us to take two hours out of our work to exercise our coding skills and develop ourselves into better scientists.
If that sounds like a good idea to you, join us by signing up to the mailing list! (see the updated club page!)
What is the Coding Club?
The EMBL Coding Club is an initiative to support the continued study and practice of computational biology by EMBL researchers of all backgrounds, especially those with limited programming experience.
Club meetings provide attendees with a calm and productive environment in which to study and work, setting their own pace and choosing their own topics to explore. Experienced volunteers act as tutors, offering guidance and help as needed. A curated database of tutorials provides an overview of available resources for learning about and practicing various aspects of computational biology.
At the start of 2018, we decided to try something new with the format of the meetings: series of themed sessions focussing on learning a particular skill/tool/library, or working together on a particular project. See the updated club page for more information.
How to Join
Simply enter your email address into this form (see the updated club page!). This is not a registration in the strict sense; although regular attendance is highly recommended to ensure continuous progress of your studies, attendance is not monitored in any way.
Time & Place
See the updated club page!
(In the old format sessions took place every Thursday from 17:00 to 19:00. In the new format they have been shortened to 1h, from 17:00 to 18:00.)
How to Contribute
We are always looking to expand our database of tutorials. If you come across a nice tutorial that is not in the database, please contribute it by filling this form!
If you are an experienced coder and/or computational biologist and you'd like to share your knowledge, you are very welcome to join the team of Coding Club tutors! Just write an email to jonas.hartmann@embl.de or toby.hodges@embl.de.