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Bioinformatics class

This is a one semester class with 12 1-hour lessons taught by Lukas Mueller and Genevieve DeClerck.

Table of contents

1. Lesson. Brief introduction to biology, computers, and bioinformatics.
2. Lesson. Introduction. Linux, Terminals, shells, basic commands.
3. Lesson. PerlIntro Perl basics: variables, control structures, subroutines, modules.
4. Lesson. Perl programming: Files, text parsing and regular expressions
5. Lesson. BioPerl.
6. Lesson. AdvancedPerl: Object Oriented Perl. Moose.
7. Lesson. Relational databases and SQL, DBI and DBIx::Class
8. Lesson. Statistics using Perl and R.
9. Lesson. Ontologies.
10. Lesson. Bioinformatics tools: NCBI (web), local blast, local web blast, alignment: muscle, bwa
11. Lesson. Gene expression
12. Lesson. XML Parsing using Perl