The purpose of this short course is to teach biologists the fundamentals of programming, enable them to write their own Python programs to solve problems in the biological science, and to encourage them to think computationally and use programming as a tool for scientific discovery.
Four workshops (total 10 hours)
Slatyer Room (Rm N2011) - RN Robertson Building #46
- Tuesday, 9 May 2.00-4.30pm
- Tuesday, 16 May 2.00-4.30pm
- Tuesday, 23 May 2.00-4.30pm
- Tuesday, 30 May 2.00-4.30pm
For each workshop, the class schedule is:
- 2.00-2.50pm (50min) Teaching
- 2.50-3.00pm (10min) Break
- 3.00-3.50pm (50min) Teaching
- 3.50-4.00pm (10min) Break
- 4.00-4.30pm (30min) Teaching
This course is also available online via Zoom
- Python programming in Biology
- Using Jupyter Notebook
- Data types and basic operations
- Input and output
- Special characters
- Loops and statements
- Loop control statements
- Python Modules
- Python Classes and Objects
- Downloading the Sequence Data
- Introduction to Biopython
- Plotting with Matplotlib and Seaborn
Any enquiries you can raise an issue on the GitHub page or contact the author directly at [email protected]