Postgraduate Course: Introduction to scientific programming for MSc in Drug Discovery & Translational Biology (PGBI11039)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Biological Sciences |
College |
College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
10 |
| Home subject area |
Postgraduate |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
This course which is specifically designed for taught MSc students in Drug Discovery and Translational Biology, will provide through lectures and tutorial exercises a basic knowledge of computer programming. The course will give the students the ability to write simple programs to manipulate digital and text data, and to perform simple mathematical trnasformations. |
Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
It is RECOMMENDED that students also take
Drug Discovery (BICH10016)
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
Recommended course book(s). |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| No Classes have been defined for this Course |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
take file of arbitary ordered data and reorder according to given rule, reformat lines to allow them to be read in.
write a program to solve square root of a quadratic equation (given bones to read in a, b and c) and write out result
write a program to read in a file, reformat its contents and write out the contents in new way
write a program which reads in file of gene names, descriptions and chromosome locations; provide a menu with 3 choices, print out genes with same name, print out genes with same chromosome, exit program
write a program which, given a pdb ID from the command line, will read in the pdb file, offer 5 menu choices to list atoms within a given distance, list residues within given distance, list atoms in a given residue, give average B factor within given residue and exit
write a PERL program to read in a collection of sequences and store selected facts about the sequences in a MySQL database
write a Web interface in PHP to programs from the previous examples (or provided example programs)
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Assessment Information
| 7 assessed practical exercises |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Paul Taylor
Tel: (0131 6)50 7058
Email: p.taylor@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Miss Vicky Mactaggart
Tel: (0131 6)51 7052
Email: Vicky.Mactaggart@ed.ac.uk |
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