BioBash Bioinformatics Essentials

BioBash Essentials is aimed at life scientists with little or no knowledge of basic bioinformatic skills. Common and general tools such as Linux command line and regular expressions are explained through practice, and more work is put into building solid programming foundations in Python. Participants learn to tackle many common scientific tasks, such as querying online databases or extracting information from endless text files. Moreover, a full day introduction to NGS data analysis covers the theory and practice of filtering, assembly and mapping of short reads.