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Postgraduate Course: Introduction to scientific programming for MSc in Drug Discovery & Translational Biology (PGBI11039)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Biological Sciences CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis 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 transformations.
Course description The lectures will try and cover the following areas; however topics covered will be coupled with progress in the practical exercises.

¿ How programming is done
¿ Introduction to general concepts
¿ Input and Output
¿ Using data structures
¿ A typical program for the analysis of a protein data bank file
¿ Advanced topics (object orientated programming, parallel programming)
¿ After the initial introductory session all exercises will be in Java
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements This course is an introductory programming course and therefore NOT recommended for any students with a programming background.
Additional Costs Recommended course book(s).
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2014/15, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 1
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 20, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 78 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) 6 assessed practical exercises

1. Modification of simple programs (15%)
2. A program to perform a simple mathematical calculation (12%)
3. Write a program to read and interpret a common chemoinformatics format using an external library (12%).
4. Develop a class to read protein databank format files and use it in a simple file reading program (12%)
5. Develop and test extensively a program to reformat text input files (13%)
6. A multi session practical to develop and test a program to compute molecular similarity (36%).
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
After completing this course, students should have:
¿ A working knowledge of how to program a computer to carry out simple tasks in data selection, data processing and data comparison.
¿ the ability to recognise and interpret JAVA programs
¿ the ability to program simple command line programs in the JAVA language
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsIntroSciProg
Contacts
Course organiserDr Paul Taylor
Tel: (0131 6)50 7058
Email: p.taylor@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Vicky Mactaggart
Tel: (0131 6)51 7052
Email: Vicky.Mactaggart@ed.ac.uk
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