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Documentation and Usability for Cancer Informatics 

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Overview

Duration

6 hours

Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

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Credential

Certificate

Documentation and Usability for Cancer Informatics
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Highlights

  • Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to the schedule
  • Earn a certificate upon completion from Coursera
  • The course includes a hands-on exercises with templates for building documentation and tutorials
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Documentation and Usability for Cancer Informatics
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More about this course
  • Cancer datasets are plentiful, complicated, and hold information that may be critical for the next research advancements. In order to use these data to their full potential, researchers are dependent on the specialized data tools that are continually being published and developed
  • Bioinformatics tools can often be unfriendly to their users, who often have little to no background in programming The usability and quality of the documentation of a tool can be a major factor in how efficiently a researcher is able to obtain useful findings for the next steps of their research
  • Increasing the usability and quality of documentation for a tool is not only helpful for the researcher users, but also for the developers themselves the many hours of work put into the product will have a higher impact if the tool is usable by the target user community
  • were not reused beyond their introductory publication
  • Even the most well-programmed tool will be overlooked by the user community if there is little to no user-friendly documentation or if they were not designed with the user in min
  • Individuals who take this course are encouraged to use these templates as they follow along with the course material to help increase the usability of their informatics tool
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Documentation and Usability for Cancer Informatics
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Curriculum

Welcome

Why bother with documentation

User design concepts

What does good documentation look like?

Components of good documentation

Getting Started Sections

Creating helpful how-to examples

How-to Examples

Reference guides

Creating clarifying code comments

Code comments

User feedback

Other helpful features

Keeping your docs up to date!

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