Introduction to R with applications to bioinformatics (2KV)
| Course no.: | 365.054 |
| Lecturer: | Ulrich Bodenhofer |
| Times/locations: | Wed, 3:30-5:00pm, T 211 Start: Wed, March 7, 2012 Note: no course on April 18, 2012! |
| Mode: | KV, 2h, weekly |
| Registration: | KUSSS |
Motivation:
The scientific computing platform (and programming language) R was originally designed for statistical analyses, but it has quickly emerged as a de facto standard in bioinformatics. It is also rapidly gaining importance in machine learning. So R is definitely a platform of the future. To know R well is a great plus in machine learning and it is even a must in bioinformatics.
The course is divided into two parts:
- The R platform and programming language
- Introduction
- The R programming language
- R graphics
- Sweave
- Object-oriented programming in R
- Foreign language interfaces
- Packaging
- Applications in bioinformatics
- Bioconductor
- Sequence handling and alignment
- Phylogeny
- Analyzing gene expression data
- Genome analysis