Credit Hours: 3
Day/Time: Tuesdays, 6–8:40 pm
Location: IT 270, 535 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202 [map]
May have some guest lectures, not necessarily in the same room and time
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Instructor: Sarath Chandra Janga, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Bioinformatics
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11 am–12 pm or by Appointment
Office: WK 309, Walker Plaza Building, 719 Indiana Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46202 [map]
Phone: (317) 278-4147 (Office)
Email: jangalab@iupui.edu
Website: http://www.iupui.edu/~jangalab/
Prerequisites:
Description
In this course, we will cover the basics of programming as they are relevant to understanding and analyzing biological datasets. This will be achieved by giving a biology background to motivate a computational need/task. At the end of the course, you should be able to describe solutions (preferably elegant) to address a wide range of basic biological and biomedical problems.
The course is aimed at giving a good foundation in UNIX based administration, PERL programming, MySQL database management, R statistical analysis and application development in omics settings using these programming languages/tools.
The instructor will give introductions to each of these programming languages and commonly used applications in bioinformatics/systems biology in the first 10 weeks. Then the students will be asked to present recent articles published in the last 4 years (each student has to present a paper), present a project work (as a group of 2 to 3 students on a particular theme/problem) and submission of the project report.