3 Credit Hours

Piscataway:

Thursdays, 1pm-4pm
RWJMS Bioinformatics Lab, V-12

Newark:

Tuesdays, 1pm-4pm
MSB C-632

Instructors

Ryan Golhar, Ph.D.
golharam@umdnj.edu
Informatics Institute Staff
MSB C631A
973-972-5034

Goal:

Students will be provided with an opportunity to a sufficiently sophisticated and informed vocabulary and skill set so that he/she can collaborate productively with computer scientists and application developers on a informatics team.

The goal of this course is to provide life science students with the knowledge of how to perform basic Perl programming in order to automate and make use of existing bioinformatics applications in a secure manner. Students will also learn how to write Perl scripts to write different types of programs, and will also learn how to utilize SQL and HTML/CGI through Perl.

Pre-requisite:

Fundaments of Bioinformatics, GINF 5001

Administrative Issues:

• Check your UMDNJ email
  • Forward emails, as necessary, to another account
• Keep up with discussions on discussion forum
  • http://forum.umdnj.edu
• Regular attendance is expected of all students
• Projects and homeworks can be done in groups (unless otherwise stated)
• Homeworks are due 2 weeks from date assigned.
  • Homeworks will not be accepted more than 1 week late.

Grading:

Participation	20%
Homework / Quizes	20%
Midterm	30%
Final practicum	30%

Required Textbooks:

• None

Recommended Books:

• Learning Perl
  By Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix
  ISBN: 0-596-10105-8
  
• Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills
  By Cynthia Gibas, Per Jambeck
  April 2001
  ISBN: 1-56592-664-1
  
• Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics
  By James Tisdall
  October 2001
  ISBN: 0-596-00080-4
  

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