Course Announcement / Reminder PPB18 Programming in Python (for Biologists, but not only) with Allegra Via, Vincenza Colonna and David P. Judge Key terms: Programming, Python IMPORTANT DATES for this Course Deadline for applications: July 18th 2018 Latest notification of acceptance: July 19th 2018 Course date: July 23rd - July 27th 2018 The GTPB is proud to announce that the above referenced hands-on training course is open for applications Admission: Candidates with adequate profile will be accepted in the next 72 hours after the application until we reach 20 participants. Course description: Python 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. 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. More information at the GTPB website, http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/2018/PPB18// Hoping that this course meets your interests, Pedro Fernandes -- The Gulbenkian Training Programme in Bioinformatics Pedro L. Fernandes, Organiser Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Rua da Quinta Grande, 6 2780-156 OEIRAS Portugal -- Pedro L. Fernandes Bioinformatics Training Coordinator Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Apartado 14 2781-901 OEIRAS PORTUGAL http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt