{"id":271,"date":"2013-01-07T15:56:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T15:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de\/?page_id=271"},"modified":"2025-09-14T14:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:01:13","slug":"why-to-apply","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de\/?page_id=271","title":{"rendered":"Why to apply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: x-large;\">13 reasons to participate in the Course:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You need no prior programming experience<\/li>\n<li>Get over the first hard steps of learning programming in two weeks assisted by experienced TAs and lecturers<\/li>\n<li>Meet experts in your field of evolutionary biology<\/li>\n<li>Learn widely used programming languages in evolutionary biology<\/li>\n<li>Learn how to analyze high-throughput sequencing data<\/li>\n<li>Learn state of the art tools used in evolutionary biology research<\/li>\n<li>Pick the brain of the lecturers and speakers who will all be around for several days<\/li>\n<li>Learn how to design and perform bioinformatics-based projects<\/li>\n<li>Develop your own 3-4-days project and strengthen your team work skills<\/li>\n<li>Come away with a tool kit for performing your own computational analyses<\/li>\n<li>Establish collaborations for future research projects and stay in contact with the bioinformatics community<\/li>\n<li>Learn to communicate with computer scientists to develop cutting edge research at the intersection of biology and your informatics department<\/li>\n<li>Strengthen the competitiveness of your CV<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Logo-daRostim-GmbH.png\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Proudly supported by<\/strong><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-958\" src=\"http:\/\/evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Logo-daRostim-GmbH.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"668\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Logo-daRostim-GmbH.png 668w, https:\/\/evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Logo-daRostim-GmbH-300x62.png 300w, https:\/\/evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Logo-daRostim-GmbH-500x103.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 reasons to participate in the Course: You need no prior programming experience Get over the first hard steps of learning programming in two weeks assisted by experienced TAs and lecturers Meet experts in your field of evolutionary biology Learn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de\/?page_id=271\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"showcase.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-271","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}