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Postgraduate Course: Perl for Bioinformatics (PGBI11056)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Biological Sciences CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryPerl 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
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
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
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsPerl
Contacts
Course organiserProf Mark Blaxter
Tel: (0131 6)50 6760
Email: Mark.Blaxter@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Vicky Mactaggart
Tel: (0131 6)51 7052
Email: Vicky.Mactaggart@ed.ac.uk
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