live training
Python for downstream data analysis
Target Audience:
All VIB staff
Location:
General context
This course is organised over two full days. We will start with a brief recap of the basics of Python, followed by exploring several libraries for data manipulation and visualization. With the help of plenty hands-on exercises, you will learn to fetch biological data and sequencing files from online databases, and be able to parse and analyze this data. There will be time to highlight specific requests of topics from participants.
Objectives
- Use libraries for advanced data manipulation and visualization
- Working with biological data using Biopython
- Being able to write scripts and functions from scratch for specific bioinformatics problems
Required skills
Participants are expected to have attended an introductory Python course and/or have acquired some working knowledge of Python.
Program
Introduction & Python recap
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Data manipulation in Pandas
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Visualization libraries (matplotlib, seaborn, i.a.)
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BioPython (1/2): introduction & fetching data
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