ADVANCED COURSE: SCRIPTING AND COMMAND LINE TRICKS FOR BIOLOGISTS

This practical course will let the users to learn some useful tricks for file handling through command line scripting. Everyday is more and more important having practice in installing software and be able to run it using high performance computing what means execute them through command line.

Some programs inputs/outputs are not 100% compatibles between them, or there are some particular necessities that we need to cover rather than the standards, so is in this scenario where the knowledge on basic scripting saves us enormous time.

The course will be focused on basic command line functions and redirections to other ones, as well as some clues of how to use ‘sed’ and ‘awk’ for quick file modifications. Finally an introduction to ‘Perl’ will be taught for making a bit more complex scripts.

PROGRAMME
Monday, Oct 29 (9:30-13:00 | 14:30-17:00)
0.- Basics on Linux. Command line and shortcuts for making easy work with plain text files.
1.- Sed and awk. Easy file modification from prompt.

Tuesday, Oct 30 (9:30-13:00 | 14:30-17:00)
2.- Sed and awk. Exercises.
3.- Perl basics: Functions and nomenclature.

Wednesday, Oct 31 (9:30-13:00 | 14:30-17:00)
4.- Perl examples and exercises.
5.- Review of results and doubts.

COURSE INSTRUCTORS

Antonio Muñoz - CIBIO-InBIO | Bioinformatics

INTENDED AUDIENCE
The course will be open to a maximum number of 20 participants.

75% of available student slots are reserved for BIODIV students. Priority will be given to:
• 1st year and other PhD students attending the BIODIV Doctoral Program;
• PhD students attending other courses;
• Other post-graduate students and researchers.

All the participants will be required to have previously set a Unix system in their laptops (OSX or Linux).

REGISTRATION
Registration deadline: October 23, 2018

To apply, please fill the form available HERE

Participation is free of charge for BIODIV students | 65 € (students) | 125 € (other participants). CIBIO-InBIO members will have an additional discount of 20%. All applicants will be notified about whether they are accepted until October, 26th.

Please note that new rules apply for all BIODIV students.