Code: BIOL-200
Semester: B
Course Type: Core
ECTS units: 6
Hours per week: Theory - 3 hours, Training - 2 hours

Instructor

Associate Professor:  Pavlos Pavlidis
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Description

Objectives of the course (preferably expressed in terms of learning outcomes and competences Familiarization with Computers in a MS Windows environment and basic applications such as MS Office

Course contents:  

BIOL-200 is an introductory course in the R programming language and the Linux operating system for Biologists. The goal of the course is to familiarize biologists with the Linux environment in which they can run software designed for bioinformatics analyses. Often, the results obtained from the execution of a software can be analyzed in R, therefore the course is also focused on the introduction of R as a language to analyze data.

In detail:

Introductory course to Linux Operating System and R programming Language.

 Linux

  1. The Linux OS: graphical environment and applications
    1. linux as an everyday working environment. Emphasis will be given to the wealth of tools that linux offers even as an everyday working environment.
  2. The Linux OS: Command line
    1. The real power of Linux OS is the command line. We will learn basic commands that will help us to use the Operating system.

R programming language basics

  1. variables
  2. data structures
  3. loops, conditionals

 Analysis of biological data with Linux and R