Python for Genomic Data Science

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Offered by Johns Hopkins University. This class provides an introduction to the Python programming language and the iPython notebook. This ... Enroll for free.

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Taught by
Mihaela Pertea, PhD
Assistant Professor
and 1 more instructor

Offered by
Johns Hopkins University

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r/anime • comment
2 points • FlintlockFreedom

I actually took this course last year but haven't used python since then so you can guess how much I remember.

I really just need to make time to work on some pet projects.

r/bioinformatics • comment
1 points • 0iam

Here.

The basics aren't covered in detail, you'd need outside help. If you're completely new to python, I suggest you use the app solorun, it helped me.

r/bioinformatics • comment
5 points • martasetzer

First of all, congrats for your choice ;) I'm doing bioinformatics right now and is important to have a minimum knowledge on programming, even for running someone's else software. You can be a basic bioinformatician and perform analysis using available software (it's okay and they're necessary too because sometimes it's hard to do it and to interpret the results) or you can be develope your own software and analysis. In this case, you really have to know how to program.

It's weird that your university doesn't teach you basic programming, maybe it's not specified but you will do. If not, maybe you should think about going to another university.

In bioinformatics the most used programming languages are Python and R (most for the statistics part), and you should also be used to work with the Linux command line. There's a lot of online courses on coursera to learn this.

Python: https://www.coursera.org/learn/python (I did this one when I started) https://www.coursera.org/learn/python-genomics? https://www.coursera.org/learn/bioinformatics https://www.coursera.org/specializations/bioinformatics

R: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/data-science-foundations-r?

Linux: https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-linux

Enjoy the journey! Programming could be really frustrating sometimes, but hold on! And the end it's really fulfilling. Hope it helped :)