Learning how to code

A part of 16s sequencing in microbiology is the computational and analytical aspect that involves a significant amount of coding. Over the past week, I have been learning how to use a different kind of coding script called R. The core R language is primarily built on C, Fortran, and R itself. It was developed by statisticians as an independent, open-source implementation of the older S programming language. There are various tutorials that I've completed that are necessary for knowing each step of the sequencing process. If you go to this link https://joey711.github.io/phyloseq/ and go to the tutorials tab at the top of the page, you can see all the different tutorials they have. The important ones for this kind of data modeling are DADA2, UniFrac, Plot Ordination, Plot Alpha Diversity, Plot Tree, Plot Bars, and especially DESeq2. The tutorials give you some pretty cool plots as well.