Course - Cold Spring Harbor, NY, United States
A computer is already an indispensible tool for database searches, but the use of web-based tools alone is not enough for today’s biologist who needs to access and work with data from myriad sources in disparate formats. This need will become ever more important as new technologies increase the already exponential rate at which biological data is generated. Designed for students and researchers with little or no prior programming experience, the two-week Programming for Biology course will give biologists the bioinformatics skills necessary to exploit this abundance of biological data.
The course is based around the Perl scripting language because of its ease of learning and incredible wealth of ready-built modules such as Bioperl that are designed to solve common biological problems. Starting with introductory coding and continuing with a survey of available biological libraries and practical topics in bioinformatics, students end by learning how to construct and run powerful and extensible analysis pipelines in a straightforward manner. The course combines formal lectures with hands-on sessions in which students work to solve problem sets covering common scenarios in the acquisition, validation, integration, analysis, and visualization of biological data.
(Bioengineers Build Open Source Language for Programming Cells, Courtesy via wired.com)
Programming for Biology - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
October 14 - 29, 2013
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, US
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