BIN 601 - Advanced Programming for Bioinformatics

This course builds on the ideas in BIN501 to enable students to work with real-world sized data sets on a server. Students will learn best practices for scripting and programming and how to install existing tools on their own instance. Shell scripting will be introduced for batch processing of files. Projects will focus on the manipulation of biological data files through typical bioinformatics pipelines. The course includes weekly programming laboratory exercises in Python with BioPython packages.

(Cr: 3