Resources for the Variant Calling Assignment

Assignment Date: Friday, Sept. 26, 2025

Due Date: Friday, Oct. 10, 2025

Lecture Slides

Lecture slides are available through Dropbox here.

Live Coding

Code for binomial simulations, tabulation, and plotting is provided below:


library(tidyverse)

n_experiments <- 30
n_tosses_per_experiment <- 5
prob_tails <- 0.5

data.frame(ntails = rbinom(n_experiments, n_tosses_per_experiment, prob_tails)) %>%
  count(ntails) %>%
  ggplot(aes(x = ntails, y = n)) +
    geom_bar(stat = "identity")

Homework Assignment

As always, before you do anything else, create a week3 directory in your qbb2025-answers directory for this assignment.

Homework assignment