BIO 409 Programming for Biology

This course will introduce the Python and R programming languages with respect to biological sequence analysis. The BioPython module in Python and the Bioconductor package in R will be used to introduce programming concepts, with emphasis on analyzing big genomic data produced by high throughput sequencing technologies. Development of computational pipelines will be performed, and various free bioinformatics software tools will be integrated with Python and R to analyze biological sequence data. No prior programming experience is necessary.

Baccalaureate Experience

(NS-Biological)

Credits

4

Prerequisite

Biology lower-core curriculum and one of the following: BIO 200, BIO 370, BIO 230 or BIO 408, or permission of instructor.

Offered

spring semester