Crash Course: Python Scripting for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Tuesday, February 22nd 2022 • 1:00 PM EST

Registration (required): go.rutgers.edu/l6tcjpsx

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:


This IQB Crash Course is a programming workshop designed to introduce life scientists to the power and flexibility of solving problems with Python. It is designed to move users beyond a "plug-and-play" approach that is based on spreadsheets and web applications in their teaching and research to writing scripts to parse large collections of data and to perform dynamic calculations. The live-coding workshop is designed to introduce specific coding skills, as well as provide insight into the broader array of open-access resources and libraries that are available for scientific computation.

Each live coding segment will be followed by a hands-on programming exercise to introduce you to the programming language and to help you identify the challenges associated with coding. You will learn to extract data from PDB files, first by working with one file to learn one set of tools, then by using a different set of tools to explore, sort and output results from a large number of files.

For those who are interested, a 12-hour workshop will be offered in July, 2022.

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CO-ORGANIZERS:

Paul A. Craig, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry                                           Jessica A. Nash, Ph.D., Software Scientist
Rochester Institute of Technology                                                        Molecular Sciences Software Institute               

 
CO-SPONSORS:

RCSB Protein Data Bank                                                                                Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine (IQB)
rcsb.org                                                                                                          iqb.rutgers.edu