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Bioinformatics workshop

by asabbin (Initiate)
on Jun 26, 2009 at 17:00 UTC ( [id://775111]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

asabbin has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi I did my masters in biomedical engg.Never used Perl before but proficient in Matlab. A new project at my job requires bio informatics computing . I will have to write programs that would interact with the world wide web and download information(human genomes) I need . I tried to search for bio informatics workshops but couldnt really find any within united states. What is the best way to learn Bioinformatics Thank you!

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Re: Bioinformatics workshop
by BioLion (Curate) on Jun 26, 2009 at 19:43 UTC

    I started out at the Cold Spring Harbour Laboratories "Computing for Biology" course:
    http://meetings.cshl.edu/courses/c-info09.shtml

    Very intense ( and a lot of fun ), but a really superb start in bioinformatics.
    Their emphasis is not so much on "How to do X, Y, Z", but "How to find out how to do X, Y, Z"...Which will be much more valuable in the long term!

    And I think you are still in time to apply!

    Just a something something...
      Their emphasis is not so much on "How to do X, Y, Z", but "How to find out how to do X, Y, Z"...Which will be much more valuable in the long term!
      Interesting...
      --Artist
        Thank you !!!
Re: Bioinformatics workshop
by derby (Abbot) on Jun 26, 2009 at 17:58 UTC

    The extent of my biomed programming was pulling data from pubmed ... but I believe NCBI used to offer courses (Powerscripting Entrez ...or something like that). They may be a good jumping off spot.

    -derby
Re: Bioinformatics workshop
by Old_Gray_Bear (Bishop) on Jun 26, 2009 at 22:41 UTC
    There is also Rex Dwyer's book Genomic Perl. The subtitle is "From Bioinformatics Basics to Working Code". It's been on the 'to be read' pile for a couple of months now, so I haven't actually gotten into it yet, but it sounds like it has promise.

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    OGB

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