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BIOL-511 Bioinformatics Programming

BIOL-511 Bioinformatics Programming
Offered academic year 2010-2011
Faculty:
  • Elsik, Christine
  • The objective of this course is to provide the basics of programming and database development to biology students who have little or no prior programming experience. Students will learn concepts and theory of relational databases, Perl programming and the SQL query language. Lectures will cover the database design process including entity-relationship modeling, relational modeling, schema refinement and physical database design. Labs will provide hands on experience in perl scripting and MySQL using examples focused on bioinformatics. Students will create a database using data from their own research or downloaded from public databases.
    ** Not offered in 2009-2010
    Credits: 3
    Prerequisites: BIOL-152
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