Introduction to Perl & BioPerl

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This is a generic version of a class "Computer Programming for Information Management" at the School of Life Science & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiaotong University. The materials in this course are mostly self-explanatory and can be used for self study. It will probably take several weeks to work through the materials.

Week 1. Programming basics

Week 2. Operators and if statements

Week 3. Logical expressions

Week 4. Program design and control structures

Week 5. Arrays, Hashs and File handling

Week 6. CGI I (forms)

Week 7. Regular expressions I

Week 8. Regular expressions II (substitution, transliteration, split)

Week 9. Subroutines, local and global variables

Week 10. Retrieving documents from the web with Perl

Week 11. CGI II (Searching web pages on-line; security)

Week 12. CGI III (Environment variables, hidden text and cookies)

Week 13. Object oriented paradigm I (Objects, classes, methods)

Week 14. The object oriented paradigm II (Class hierarchy, inheritance, polymorphism and encapsulation)

Week 15. Perl application for molecular biology

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