[BBC] [Gtpb] GTPB announcement Bioinformatics using Pythonm for Biologists

[Pedro Fernandes]

                       Course Announcement

Applications are OPEN until May 28th 2013 (latest deadline for applicants)
Early decisions available for thos who request them.

*BPB13*
*Bioinformatics using Python for Biologists*
with Allegra Via and Kristian Rother

                      Is OPEN for applications

Course poster available at:
http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/posters/BPB13.pdf

  IMPORTANT DATES for this Course
    Deadline for applications: May 28th 2013
    Notification of acceptance dates:
         EARLY:  May 13th 2013 (on special request, see Application)
         NORMAL:  May 29th 2013
    Course date: June 3rd to June 7th 2013

Course website
http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/BPB13

Suitability:
This course is suitable for scientists that feel the need to overcome  
the difficulty of not knowing how to program. Since 2010, it has been  
highly successful.

Description

Python Python is an object-oriented programming language that is ideal  
for biological data analysis. The course will start from zero  
knowledge, and will cover all basic concepts of Python, including  
variables, calculating, reading and writing files, control flow,  
modules, functions, exceptions. All examples and practical sessions  
will focus on solving biological problems.

In particular the sessions will cover:
- working with DNA and protein sequences
- data retrieval from files and their manipulation
- running applications, such as BLAST, locally and from a scrip
- finding motifs in sequence
- parsing Swiss-Prot files, PDB files, ENSEMBL records, blast output  
files, etc.
- Biopython

The course will be highly interactive and the students will  
continuously put theory into practice while learning. By the end of  
the course, the participants will have a good understanding of Python  
basics and will have acquired the skills to manage any type of  
bioinformatics database record and to run applications from scripts.  
Basic Unix/linux skills will be provided at the beginning of the course.
Target Audience

End-users of bioinformatics databases and tools that aim at developing  
hands-on capabilities for biological data analysis, ie writing their  
own or adapting somebody else's Python scripts in an autonomous way.
Course Pre-requisites

Basic 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.

Pedro Fernandes
GTPB Coordinator
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Pedro Fernandes
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Apartado 14
2781-901 OEIRAS
PORTUGAL
Tel +351 21 4407912
http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt





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