Bioinformatics courses

Introduction to Python Programming Course:

3 & 4 July 2013

This is a two day course aimed at getting those without previous programming experience to have enough confidence to start writing small scripts for doing routine data analysis tasks.  The course begins with an introduction to the Python language covering the main data types and the Python statements that can be used to manipulate them.  From there, we progress to reading and writing files and displaying graphs and charts.  The course is geared towards data analysis, but there will be time in the last session to explore how more specific problems (such as sequence analysis, manipulation of geospatial data, image handling or web programming) can be tackled in Python.

Venue:  Biology Department, rooms B102 and B102A

Course organiser:  Peter Ashton

Registration:  Please download Python Registration Form July 2013 (MS Word , 22kb) and  email your form to: btf-enquiries@york.ac.uk 

Any queries about the course content, please contact Dr Peter Ashton.

 

Bespoke courses available on request:

  • Introduction to Linux
  • Basic Sequence Analysis Tools
  • Introduction to Perl Programming
  • Bioinformatics Applications with Bioperl
  • Biological Databases and Web Integration

Contact: Stuart Priest

  

 Bioinformatics for Biologists Course:

 November 2013 (date to be confirmed) 

 Objectives

 Principle objectives are: 

  1. To inform about the content of the commonly used molecular sequence database and explain their limitations. 
  1. To explain the principles behind commonly used bioinformatics methods so that they can be used to best effect.  The methods covered will be:
    • Pairwise sequence alignment
    • Searches based on sequence alignment scores (e.g. BLAST)
    • Multiple sequence alignment
    • Simple phylogenetic reconstruction using neighbour-joining methods 
  1. To discuss the application of hidden Markov models to sequence analysis and demonstrate how they can be used to infer function. 

Outcomes 

Students will be able to apply the most commonly used bioinformatics tools and databases in an effective way, and understand the limitations of the techniques.

 Timetable

Session 1

Wednesday 

Session 2

Thursday 

Session 3

Friday 

Lecture Pairwise alignment and database searching

Lecture Multiple alignment and phylogeny

Lecture Sequence to Function

Workshop

Workshop

Workshop

Venue:  B102A

Course organiser:  Peter Ashton

Any queries about the course content, please contact Peter Ashton

Registration:  please e-mail btf-enquiries@york.ac.uk  

Laboratory scene (placeholder)