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+Description 
+------------
+
+The first homework of the course is first to make sure you have a running compute environment. 
+
+See [Compute Environment](https://github.com/BIMSBbioinfo/compgen_course_2025_module3/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file#compute-environment). 
+
+Once you have a running environment, please download the following notebook and run it. 
+
+```
+# Download
+wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BIMSBbioinfo/compgen_course_2025_module3/refs/heads/main/homeworks/hw1/day1_hw_brca_subtypes.ipynb
+```
+
+Read the contents and make notes of things that are new to you. Try to make sense of what is going on in the analysis. 
+
+For questions, please use the [github discussions](https://github.com/BIMSBbioinfo/compgen_course_2025_module3/discussions).