[Biopython] Teaching BioPython

[Iddo Friedberg]

There is also Sebastian Bassi's book...
http://www.amazon.com/Bioinformatics-Chapman-Mathematical-Computational-Biology/dp/1584889292/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1308688427&sr=8-1

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>wrote:

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




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