Postgraduate Course: Perl for Bioinformatics (PGBI11056)
Course Outline
School | School of Biological Sciences |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
Summary | Perl is a key prototyping and scripting language in bioinformatics, and provides a useful introduction to programming for non-programmers. The course will focus on learning the practicalities of programming in Perl, introducing key concepts common across programming languages, introducing the bioPerl toolkit, and guiding students through production of working bioinformatics code. |
Course description |
In the course we will cover:
- best practice in programming
- the Perl interpretor
- the Perl community: finding resources and answering questions
- the use of loops, arrays and associative arrays
- object-oriented programming basics
- devising and deploying regular expressions
- the BioPerl toolkit
- connecting to SQL databases through Perl
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
* Students will gain wide experience of the Perl language
* They will understand the concept of communities of collaborating programmes producing common software goods
* Students will be able to produce high-quality, working prototype bioinformatics programmes
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Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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Keywords | Perl |
Contacts
Course organiser | Prof Mark Blaxter
Tel: (0131 6)50 6760
Email: Mark.Blaxter@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Vicky Mactaggart
Tel: (0131 6)51 7052
Email: Vicky.Mactaggart@ed.ac.uk |
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