Learning to program is one of the best investments that you can make for your research and your career.
He is currently Lecturer in Bioinformatics at Edinburgh University..
Martin Jones has been teaching biologists to write software for over five years and has taught everyone from postgraduates to PIs.
About the author Dr.
Exercises: counting k-mers, binning DNA sequences by length.
In chapter nine, you\'ll learn how to make your Python programs work in harmony with existing tools, and how to polish up your programs so that they\'re ready for other people to use.
Exercises: translating DNA sequences to protein.
This allows simplification of much of the code from previous chapters.
In chapter eight, you\'ll learn how to store huge amounts of data in a way that can still allows it to be retrived very efficiently.
Exercises: filtering accession names and calculating restriction fragment sizes.
In chapter seven, you\'ll learn an incredibly powerful tool for working with patterns in text - regular expressions - and how to use it to search in DNA and protein sequences.
Exercises: filtering genes based on multiple criteria.
In chapter six, you\'ll learn how to write programs that can make smart decisions about how to handle data and how to make your programs follow complex rules.
Exercises: Analyzing the amino acid composition of protein sequences.
In chapter five, you\'ll learn how to make Python even more useful by creating your own functions, including the best ways to test those functions in order to speed up development.
Exercises: trimming adapter sequences, concatenating exons.
In chapter four, you\'ll learn how to process many pieces of data in a single program and more advanced tools for sequence manipulation.
You\'ll also learn how to deal with file paths and the FASTA file format.
Exercises: splitting genomic DNA, writing a FASTA file.
In chapter three, you\'ll learn how to read and write data to and from files.
Exercises: calculating AT content, splicing introns.
In chapter two, you\'ll learn how to manipulate text (including DNA and protein sequences) and how to fix errors in your programs.
You\'ll also learn how to install Python for your operating system and how to set up your Programming environment, Complete with links to all the free software you\'ll need.
Table of contents In chapter one, you\'ll learn why Python is a good choice for biologists and Beginners alike.
Maybe you\'ve been looking at job ads and noticed just how many of them are asking for Programming skills.
Maybe your supervisor has told you that you need to learn Programming for your next project.
Why learn programming? Maybe you see colleagues writing programs to save time and deal with large datasets.
Python for biologists is a Complete Programming Course for Beginners that will give you the skills you need to tackle common biological and bioinformatics problems.
Learning to program is one of the best investments that you can make for your research and your career
