A Mann Whitney U test determined that Caucasian students (Mean rank = 179.50) were more likely to have prior computer programming experience compared to Asian students in this cohort (Mean rank =157.64; z= -2.33, p= 0.02, r= -0.11, Table .1). Whereas Asian students had less prior experience with computer programming, but rated their confidence with using Jupyter Notebooks, Python and analyzing omics data as higher than their Caucasian peers (Table ). This trend was observed at both pre-test and post-test time points (14.1, 14.2), however, the differences between these groups at post-test were less significant, suggesting the differences between these groups diminished over time. In evaluating the course (14.3), Asian students specifically articulated the benefit they found from the data labs as part of the revised curriculum. Asian students (Mean rank= 128.69) found the idea of python programming to be less daunting after the labs compared to Caucasian students (Mean rank= 111.83; z=-2.02, p= -.043, r= -0.12). However, despite these differences in attitudes, we found no significant differences in final test scores between Asian students (Mean rank= 101.7) and Caucasian students (Mean rank=111.16; z=-1.179, p > 0.05, r= -0.08).