Course Outline

Introduction to the Python programming language

  • Why Python?
  • Using Python to deal with biological data
  • Working with the iPython shell
  • Your first programme
  • Writing Python scripts
  • Importing modules

Working with protein and RNA/DNA sequences

  • Finding motives
  • Transcription and translation in silico
  • Handling sequence alignments

Parsing data in different biological formats

  • Parsing FASTA
  • Data format conversions

Running biological analyses

  • BLAST
  • Accessing biological web services

Dealing with biological 3D structures using Python

Python facilitates statistical analysis

Visualizing data

  • Creating bar and scatter plots
  • Calculating an Area Under Curve (AUC)

Working with .xls and .csv files

  • Importing data from and exporting to MS Excel / OpenOffice Calc
  • Writing .xls and .csv files

Using Python to create an automated data processing pipeline

Requirements

Basic biological knowledge about protein, RNA and DNA sequences.

  28 Hours
 

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