The plan for today is similar to yesterday. We will start with a continuation of the Biopython tutorial. It is a wonderful tutorial, that I wish I had had when I was working in this area. However, it contains a LOT of information and too many new concepts and ideas to absorb so quickly. Consequently, we will just do a little more of this tutorial together, but I highly recommend continuing on your own. The notebook for today can be downloaded HERE
If we have time before lunch, we will then work more on Rosalind problems. In response to a discussion I had with one of your classmates, I looked up my stats after class yesterday. Here is the data:
I have currently solved 71 problems, but I haven't solved any in the past 4 years (and none since starting my CS grad program).
If you solved more than 4 problems yesterday, you're already ahead of 38139 users. After solving 8 problems, you're in the top 50%.
After lunch, I would like people to work on short presentations on topics of interest in bioinformatics. These are not meant to be technical, though they can be. Suggested topics:
Please prepare a short presentation (5 - 10 minutes) to share with your classmates. You should have editing privileges on this class website. Go to the Presentations page in editing mode, and create a subpage for your presentation. Have the name of the subpage reflect the content of your presentation. You may work with other students on joint presentations, in which case it is fine for your presentations to be longer.
We will then move on to a final Rosalind session, which we will start with a discussion of practical approaches to how to approach the problems and which tactics people have found to be useful or successful.
Finally, we can explore this listing of bioinformatics resources. Similar to the earlier presentations, each person/pair of students may choose a resource to explore and report back to the group on.