Mann Whitney U tests identified that there was a significant difference in how female students appraised their understanding and confidence with analyzing omics data compared to their male peers (Table ). Despite female students rating their prior experience with programming, extensive data analysis and generating omics data higher than male students, male students rated their understanding and confidence with analyzing omics data higher than female students at both pre-test and post-test levels. (15.1, 15.2). A Mann Whitney U test compared students' final test scores and showed that female students (Mean rank= 140.09) performed better on the course overall than their male student peers (Mean rank= 118.52; z= 2.31, p= 0.017, r=0.14), however the effect size indicates that gender had a small effect on the final test scores for male versus female students in this cohort.