Essential Computing for Bioinformatics (Fall 2007)

This course provides a broad introductory discussion of essential computer science concepts that have wide applicability in the natural sciences. Particular emphasis will be placed on applications to Bioinformatics.  The concepts will be motivated by practical problems arising from the use of bioinformatics research tools such as genetic sequence databases. Concepts will be discussed in a weekly lecture and will be practiced via simple programming exercises using Python, an easy to learn and widely available scripting language.

General Information

	Course Information Sheet A.K.A. Prontuario (PDF)
	Course Outline  (PDF)

Lectures Tuesday & Thursday (4:10 - 5:25) @ Stefani 228

	Lecture   1 - First Steps in Computing (PDF)
	Lecture   2 - Using Biological Databases (PDF)
	Lecture   3 - The Nature of Computing (PDF)
	Lecture   4 - Conreolling the Flow of your Programs (PDF)

	Lecture  5 - Cotainer Data Structures (PDF)
	Lecture 6 - Files and Directories (PDF)
	Lecture 7 - Interfacing with Bioinformatics Data Sources (PDF)
	Lecture 8 - Exploiting Relational Databases (PDF)

	Exam 1:TBA (Topics, Practice, Solution, Stats)
	Exam 2: TBA (Topics, Practice, Solution, Stats)
	Exam 3:TBA (Topics, Practice, Solution, Stats)
	Final Exam:   (Topics, Practice, Solution, Stats)

	Problem Set 1. TBA (PDF, Solution)
	Problem Set 2. TBA (PDF, Solution)
	Problem Set 3. TBA (PDF, Solution)
	Problem Set 4. TBA (Doc, Solution)

	Programming Assignment 1. TBA  (Word, PDF, Solution)
	Programming Assignment 2. TBA (Word, PDF, Solution)
	Programming Assignment 3. TBA (RefCode, Doc, Solution)
	Programming Assignment 4. TBA (RefCode, Doc, Solution)

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	Standard Python Software Downloads
	BioPython Download Page
	MySQL Downloads Page

Computability and Turing Machines CS 110 Notes University of Alberta Turing Machines in Stanford's Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Python Python Tutorial Python Language Reference Python Documentation Index BioPython Tutorial and Cookbook

	Pasteur Institute Course in Bioinformatics
	Pasteur Institute Introduction to Programming Using Python

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