INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING FOR BIOINFORMATICS USING JAVA

Description This is a general overview of the course developed to introduce students to the fundamentals of programming for bioinformatics using the Java programming language. Many of the concepts covered will be readily transferable to other languages. The course itself is designed to be interactive and so these lines are just a guide to the content covered. The course will largely focus on the Java language basics including: data types; program control structures; and object-oriented programming features of the language, with an emphasis on usage within areas of bioinformatics, for example file manipulation, package use and calling external software. By the end of the course students will have had a primer on creating programmatic solutions to real world problems within the scope of their research. GENERAL PROGRAMME Day 1: 1.1. What is Java and what does it have in common with other languages? 1.2. Installing Java 1.3. The Netbeans integrated development environment 1.4. A look at a simple Java program 1.5. Programming in Java 1 Code style, simple data types and operators Day 2: 2.1. Programming in Java 2 Arrays Program flow, code blocks, loops, conditions Implementing a simple calculator Day 3: Data structures, classes and objects Strings Reading from a file Writing to a file Packages COURSE INSTRUCTORS John Archer - CIBIO-InBIO | BIOINFORMATICS Dates March 27th – 29th, 2019 INTENDED AUDIENCE The course will be open to a maximum number of 15 participants. Course URL https://cibio.up.pt/en/events/introduction-to-programming-for-bioinformatics-using-java-new-registration-deadline/ Related software to this project are: 1. CStone 2. CSReadGen 3. CView 4. ChimSim 5. TVScript General details of the supporting project are available here.The Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT, supported this work through project PTDC/BIA-EVL/29115/2017. JA was supported by Funds through FCT under the reference POCI-01-0145-FEDER-02911