Bioinformatics

A plain-language breakdown of ToolUniverse, the open-source platform from Harvard that wants to give every biologist their own AI research assistant — with 1000+ scientific tools under one roof.

You don't need a computer science degree to learn R. Here's why it's worth your time as a biologist, and how swirl lets you learn interactively — right inside R itself.

Thinking about making the jump from bench work to computational biology? Here is a realistic roadmap based on what actually works.