DMMC COURSES & WORKSHOPS

PYTHON PROGRAMMING FOR BIOINFORMATICS ANALYSIS: beginners/intermediate
29 Nov - 2 Dec 2004; 0900-1300 each day
Venue: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (location)
Contact education@dmmc.ie if you are interested in attending a future running of this course.
Maximum number of participants is 40

A hands-on introduction to Python programming, designed for first-year PhD students in bioinformatics, but also open to others with an interest in using Python. Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. Please note: you must bring a laptop computer with Python installed (please see the information below).

Visit the course webpage for handouts/slides and more information.

Course Coordinator: Daan Archer (Department of Clinical Pharmacology, RCSI).

Mon 29 Nov; 0900-1300
Basics: local/global variables, functions, if/else, arrays/lists, loops.

Tue 30 Nov; 0900-1300
More basics: quick repeat of day 1, object-oriented programming, UML-class diagrams, reading files, some data-structures.

Wed 1 Dec; 0900-1300
Bioinformatics: biopython, parsing swissprot flat-files, storing
swissprot records in objects and some basic calculating over these records. Potentially: SQL database access, blast, fasta.

Thu 2 Dec; 0900-1300
More bioinformatics: looping trees using recursion, alignments.

Maximum number of participants is 40. You can attend either the whole course or selected days. Please apply online (applications for this course will be accepted 1-22 November 2004).

No computers are available, so you must bring your own laptop with Python installed* (get Python from www.python.org/download/). The course instructors will get you up and running during the first morning.

*Python is copyrighted but placed under an open source license, meaning that Python can be freely used and distributed.

For more information on Python, see www.python.org