License & Citation

License

We want these materials to be reused, taught, and built upon. Two licenses apply:

What	License	You may
Teaching materials — text, slides, figures, exercises	CC-BY 4.0	Share and adapt, including commercially, with attribution
Code — scripts, site source	MIT	Use, modify, and redistribute freely, keeping the notice

In short: use anything here, adapt it for your own teaching or research, and please credit the source.

Data is not licensed for reuse

The datasets remain the property of their originating studies and are used here for teaching only. The mtDNA case study uses a synthetic dataset; no real participant data is distributed with these materials.

How to cite

If these materials informed your work, teaching, or a pipeline, please cite them:

Choga, W.T., Aid Boudries, M., Koofhethile, C., & Sabone, P. (2026). Bioinformatics, AI and Data Science — Bioinformatics Series in Botswana 2026. Botswana Harvard Health Partnership. https://wtchoga.github.io/bioinformatics-series-botswana

BibTeX

@misc{bsb2026,
  author       = {Choga, Wonderful T. and Aid Boudries, Malika and
                  Koofhethile, Catherine and Sabone, Phenyo},
  title        = {Bioinformatics, AI and Data Science --- Bioinformatics
                  Series in Botswana 2026},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://wtchoga.github.io/bioinformatics-series-botswana}},
  note         = {Botswana Harvard Health Partnership}
}

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