Computational lab, Ecol553 (Genomics)

Main course page

Useful Links:
Textpad - a decent text editor for programming.
Eclipse - a better programming editor ... but with a bit steeper learing curve (google for "eclipse perl" to see how to set yourself up for perl coding)
ActivePerl - a perl installation for Windows.
Cygwin - a Unix environment that runs in Windows (comes with Perl - use either this or ActivePerl, not both)
Ohnline regex tester

MySQL on amadeus

Week Reading / Links Lecture "notes" Exercises Extras
1 Intro to Excel class notes
excel sheet that covers
  the kind of material discussed
  in class (and more)
excel sheet for exercises
name list
numbers
named numbers
ranges
genome annotation
chart data 1 chart data 2
 
2 Genomics resources/tools genomics resources
bookmarks
blast queries
   
3 Amadeus (the unix server)
Unix tutorial (part 1: sections 1-5, 8, 10, 11)
    SSH secure shell
Unix Crib Sheet
Unix Essentials
Another unix reference card
4 Genomics resources/tools      
5 "Beginning Perl" by Simon Cozens:
  • Chapter 1, starting on 6th page of pdf (labeled pg 24).
  • Chapter 2, ignoring:
    • binary, hexadecimal and octal numbers
    • bitwise operators
     
6 "Beginning Perl"      
7 "Beginning Perl"
  • Chapter 4 finish (and do all "Try It Out" exercises)
     
8 "Beginning Perl"
     
9        
10 "Beginning Perl"      
11 "Beginning Perl"      
12 Chapter 10 - modules
A very simple intro to modules
BioPerl docs
    Docs for
v.1.2.3, the version on amadeus.
    Use "SearchIO" for blast file parsing.
BioPerl wiki page
     
12 MySQL on amadeus