Introduction
As part of the Turing-Roche Partnership Community Scholar Scheme, the Tech-Talk series aims to facilitate the exchange of technical knowledge and skills between scientists in academia and industry.
About the event
In software engineering and research, we want to write flexible, reusable, reliable, reproducible, accurate, performant, and collaborative-friendly code. However, there is no rulebook for writing good code. There are core principles we can take from best software engineering practice and apply them to our research code, but it isn’t always obvious how to do so!
This month, we will hear from final-year University of Oxford DPhil student, Claudia Vanea. Claudia's work concerns understanding healthy and disease variation in human placenta histology. Through this, she has built a hierarchical deep-learning pipeline for identifying rich whole-slide phenotypes from the single-cell level. This pipeline was originally intended for placenta histology but has since been extended to liver, adipose, kidney, and cross-organ analysis by other researchers.
Claudia will explore the most useful techniques and practices for writing collaborative research code with examples from research codebases and personal experience. She will focus on version control, abstraction, project structure, and code review, with a special mention of testing and debugging.
The session will also have a Q&A and discussion section, providing attendees with the opportunity to ask questions and share their own experiences.
We also hope to have discussions about this area after the event via our Turing-Roche Slack Workspace which you can join here. Once you are a Slack member please join the channel #technical-knowledge-share
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You can watch a recording of this event here.
