[Free] Introduction To Programming For Bioinformatics With Python
Learn Python programming for biological data manipulation and scientific research – Free Course
What you’ll learn
- Understand Bioinformatics Concepts
- Manipulate DNA and protein sequences
- Build your first computer program
- Develop scripts in the Python programming language
- Biopython Library
Requirements
- No basic knowledge required
Description
Welcome to the “Introduction to Programming for Bioinformatics with Python” course. Recently, the new sequencing technologies have allowed new discoveries for Life Sciences. However, computer skills became highly necessary to deal with big biological data. Hence, knowing how to build computer programs is essential to Bioinformatics.In this course, you will learn the basics of programming for developing computer programs applied for Bioinformatics. You will also learn about creating your first algorithms, creating pipelines using the programming language Python, and analyzing biological databases. Python is the main programming language used for bioinformaticians.
This course is ideal for students who are starting in the field of bioinformatics and who do not have previous knowledge of programming.
You will also learn in this course:
What are computer programs?
How to create your first scripts?
What is Python?
Using the Colab web tool
What are variables?
Objects in Python
Logical operators
Variable types: strings, integers, Boolean
Sequences in Python: lists, dictionaries, and tuples
What are conditional statements?
What are iterative statements?
How to compare sequences
Bioinformatics file types
What is a software library?
What is Biopython?
How to convert a sequence from a string into a Biopython object?
Manipulating sequences using Biopython
Translation and transcription using Biopython
Author(s): Diego Mariano, Ph.D.
