With this course you will learn how to install perl on your computer if you do not have the UNIX operating system (linux, iOS). You will also learn to edit your scripts, modify, adapt to your bioinformatics analysis needs. In this course you will learn in a practical way to perform bioinformatics analysis with scripts using data from biological databases.   

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TEMARY

Unit I: Programming in Perl and Bioinformatics.

Brief introduction to Bioinformatics

The problem of data integration.

Why Perl?

Programming strategies.

Unit II: Introduction to Perl.

Characteristics

Tools for scheduling

Installation

Unit III: Variables.

Scalar variables and operations with scalars

Arrays and Matrix Operations

Associative arrays (hashes)

Practical exercise.

Unit IV: Sequences and chains

Program entry and exit

Basic commands and operations

Reading and writing files

Practical exercise.

Unit V: Flow Control

Conditional instructions

Operators

Loops

Practical exercise.

Unit VI: Regular expressions.

Pattern search

Meta-characters

Pattern extraction

String substitution

Practical exercise.

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