[Verse 1]
Set the metronome slow, twenty-four to thirty weeks,
Eight to ten hours, steady river, never leaks,
Modules one through four are bedrock, concrete pour,
Don't skip the footing, biologist or code explorer.
Bio-first, you came from petri dish and pipette,
Linger longer on three and four, don't forget the alphabet,
Appendix A's your friend, it decodes the stats and scripts,
So the terminal window never feels like it bites.
[Chorus]
A-T-C-G, but the syllabus reads different letters,
One through four is the spine, then you pick what's better,
Five to twelve are movable joints, bend them to your question,
Fourteen's the capstone gluing every lesson.
Base by base, week by week, we're building up the strand,
Curriculum's a double helix, easy in your hand.
[Verse 2]
CS-first, you came from clusters, functions, loops that run,
Extra hours in Module one and two before you're done,
Appendix B is waiting with the vectors dense and keen,
Turning noisy k-mers into counts that stay clean,
But don't you dare breeze past the wet-lab chapters, friend,
Three and four explain why every signal has an end,
Because a chromosome's not just a string you can invert,
It's twisted, capped, and histone-wrapped — biologically alert.
[Chorus]
A-T-C-G, but the syllabus reads different letters,
One through four is the spine, then you pick what's better,
Five to twelve are movable joints, bend them to your question,
Fourteen's the capstone gluing every lesson.
Base by base, week by week, we're building up the strand,
Curriculum's a double helix, easy in your hand.
[Verse 3]
Minimum ticket in: Python or R, don't need both yet,
Algebra and a coin flip's odds, that's your safety net,
Hypothesis tests, descriptive stats, high-school gene review,
A terminal you can drive — that's the minimum for you.
Ideal ticket adds some Bash, some Linux breathing room,
Calculus, linear algebra, Bayesian bloom,
GLMs and multiple testing, Git to track your past,
HPC and cloud for when your dataset's too vast.
[Bridge]
Modules five through twelve, they're not one straight line drawn,
Reshuffle like a card deck till your research finds its dawn,
Assembly first, or variants first — the order's only yours,
Just don't you dare walk past the doors marked one through four.
[Verse 4]
Fourteen weeks deep or thirty, however long it took,
The capstone's waiting, end to end, to close the whole book,
Raw reads walk in, a variant report walks out the door,
That's the proof you built the engine, base pair to the core.
[Chorus]
A-T-C-G, but the syllabus reads different letters,
One through four is the spine, then you pick what's better,
Five to twelve are movable joints, bend them to your question,
Fourteen's the capstone gluing every lesson.
Base by base, week by week, we're building up the strand,
Curriculum's a double helix, easy in your hand.
[Outro]
A-T-C-G, remember different letters,
Foundation, flex, and capstone — leave this curriculum better.