Statistics

Large numbers can tell you amazingly interesting things... if you know how to tame them. In this era, we have no lack of information, but rather a shortage of understanding the statistical approaches to extract meaning from the information.

Statistical software used in bioinformatics

• R - the immensely popular open-source statistical environment. It increasingly allows to analyze sequence data as well. Very powerful and extensible. See R BITS wiki page.
• weka - powerful data-mining software with a simple GUI to do cluster analysis, principal component analysis,... See weka BITS wiki page.

General tutorials

• Video on statistics