201. Advanced Unix for Bioinformatics

Unix is the platform of choice for large-scale Bioinformatics operations. Among other things, 201 describes work-flow operations in a typical high-throughput sequencing center - a fundamental aspect of large-scale sequencing that controls how sequence data is stored, distributed and processed in these centers - and, the biology of the sequencing process itself. Unix 201 can be taken in combination with Perl 201.

Unix for Bioinformatics 201 covers the following topics:

    § Editing and manipulating sequence files with the vi editor

    § FTP and downloading databases from NCBI

    § Unix commands and utilities for sequence analysis

    § Using wild cards with commands

    § File compression and uncompression

    § Process control

 

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