[BBC] [Gtpb] GTPB announcement Bioinformatics using Pythonm for Biologists
Pedro Fernandes
pfern at igc.gulbenkian.pt
Tue May 7 12:36:35 CEST 2013
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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