[Biopython] Teaching BioPython

[Peter Cock]

On 21 Jun 2011, at 21:28, Iddo Friedberg <idoerg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not exactly what you are looking for, but you may be able to grab some
> examples from teh course at the Institut Pasteur, which is a programming
> course for biologists using Python:
> 
> http://www.pasteur.fr/formation/infobio/python/
> 
> The same people used to have a biopython course, but it seems not to be
> available online anymore. Maybe you can email them directly.

Unfortunately large parts of their Biopython material had become out of date.

> 
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Aisling ODriscoll wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I have been asked to deliver BioPython classes to biologists. Having a
>> computer science background myself (Python), I am not finding it easy to
>> tie python back to concepts that the biology students will relate to.
>> This will be very important as I'm not there to teach them to be expert
>> Python computer programmers - they're programming skills must relate to
>> their discipline. Has anyone delivered such a course? Even better would
>> someone have any lesson plans available which I could use as a starting
>> point?
>> 
>> I came across this post but the it's a bit old and the information
>> provided in the link no longer seems to be hosted.
>> http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython/2009-August/005487.html
>> 
>> Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> Aisling.
>> 
>> 

I've not tried to do anything quite that ambitious. Have you got an idea of the amount of contact time you have to work with? That would make a big difference.

Peter