03-708 Practical Computing for Biologists

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

The last two decades have seen an explosion in publicly available biological data and open source programs for data analysis. Using such programs to analyze these data still requires significant training and practice. This course is designed to help you build the skills necessary to unlock the power of public programs and analyze public data. You will learn basic command line operations in Unix, fundamentals of programming for biological data analysis, how to install and use public open source programs, and strategies for combining tools and programs into computational pipelines.

Prerequisites: none listed

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