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PPB18 Programming in Python for BiologistsDownloadable poster in PDF |
IMPORTANT DATES for this Course
Candidates with adequate profile will be accepted in the next 72 hours after the application until we reach 20 participants. |
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Vincenza Colonna is a group leader at the Institue of Genetics and Biophysics of the Italian National Research Council in Napoli, Italy. She works in human genomics and her main research interests are natural selection and consanguineous populations. She graduated from University of Napoli Federico II (Italy) and did postdoctoral work at University of Ferrara (Italy) and at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (UK). She was lecturer in Genetics and Bioinformatics at the University of Ferrara (Italy). She is also leading the ObiLab project (http://www.igb.cnr.it/popgenlab/research) on training in bioinformatics. She is an instructor for ELIXIR-ITA and Software/Data Carpentry. She is also involved as collaborator and instructor in the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Train the Trainer activities.
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![]() David P Judge is a Computer Scientist who has taught Bioinformatics since 1985. He initiated the University of Cambridge Bioinformatics Training Facilty, providing the necessary environment for graduate and undergraduate courses. He has also been involved with training programmes at the European Bioinformatics Institute, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) through GTPB. He currently teaches Bioinformatics in several international training programmes and is regularly invited to teach in many places in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. His course notes and exercises are well known to the international community of Bioinformatics professionals and users, many of whom (difficult to count) have had their first contact with Bioinformatics through him. David helped to pioneer Bioinformatics Training at the IGC in 1989, as part of an MSc course. Since its inception in 1999, he has contributed to the GTPB several times per year. Affiliation: Freelance independent Bioinformatics instructor.Former manager of Bioinformatics Training, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK |
Course DescriptionPython is a programming language that is ideal for data processing. The course will start from zero knowledge, and will introduce the participants to all the basic concepts of programming such as calculating, repeating things, making choices, reading and writing files, filtering and organising data, program logic and writing larger programs. The examples and practical sessions will mostly focus on managing biological data.In particular the sessions will cover: - parsing common file formats (Uniprot, GenBank, PDB, BLAST) - data retrieval from files and their manipulation - finding motifs in sequences - manipulating tables - plotting data The course will be highly interactive and the participants will continuously put theory into practice while learning. At the end of the course, the participants will have a good understanding of programming basics and will have acquired the skills to manage bioinformatics database record and data files. Basic Unix/Linux skills will be provided at the beginning of the course. Participants are welcome to bring to the course the "typical" text file that they may need to filter, manipulate or analyse such a table, a file in fastq or fasta format, a PDB file, etc. Target AudienceEnd-users of bioinformatics databases and tools that need to manage large files and/or a large number of files and aim at developing hands-on capabilities for their analysis by writing their own or adapting somebody else's scripts in an autonomous way.Course Pre-requisitesBasic familiarity with bioinformatics data resources such as Uniprot/Swiss-Prot, Blast, ENSEMBL, PDB, etc. The course is directed to biologists with little or no programming experience and aims at making them capable to use Python to autonomously manage and analyse biological data. |
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Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Apartado 14, 2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal Last updated: June 15th 2018 |