During week 1, students are introduced to various examples of biological data and the concepts behind their analysis. Afternoons are dedicated to practicing biological data analysis skills. Students with no programming experience can join structured courses to learn programming in R or Python from scratch. Students with prior programming experience can deepen their knowledge of data analysis through statistical and machine learning workshops offered by our faculty members. The workshops assume that you are comfortable working in either R or Python, so that you can focus on the course material rather than basic programming skills. Each day, at least two workshops will be offered, allowing you to choose the topic that interests you most.

Week 2 is dedicated to the work on mini research projects in groups of 4-7 people lead by out faculty in their respective research areas.

Detailed UBDS^3 2026 season syllabus is coming soon! You can check the syllabus of the previous seasons here: 2025, 2024, 2023.