Bioinformatics: Writing Software for Genome Research
	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory , Cold Spring Harbor, NY October 11 - 24, 2000
	The desktop computer is rapidly becoming an indispensable tool in the biologist's toolchest. The success of the human genome project has created an explosion of information: billions of bits of biological information stashed electronically in databases around the globe just waiting for the right key to unlock them. New technologies such as DNA microarrays and high-throughput genotyping are creating an information overload that the traditional laboratory notebook cannot handle. To exploit the information revolution in biology, biologists must move beyond canned Web interfaces and Excel spreadsheets. They must take charge of the data by creating their own software to fetch, manage and integrate it. The goal of this course is to provide biologists with the tools needed to deal with this changing landscape. Designed for students and researchers with little prior knowledge of programming, this two-week course will teach the fundamentals of the Unix operating system, Perl scripting, dynamic Web page development with the CGI protocol, and database design. The course combines formal lectures with hands-on experience in which students work to solve a series of problem sets drawn from common scenarios in biological data acquisition, integration, and laboratory workflow management. For their final projects, students will pose problems using their own data and work with each other and the faculty to solve them. The desktop computer is rapidly becoming an indispensable tool in the biologist's toolchest. The success of the human genome project has created an explosion of information: billions of bits of biological information stashed electronically in databases around the globe just waiting for the right key to unlock them. New technologies such as DNA microarrays and high-throughput genotyping are creating an information overload that the traditional laboratory notebook cannot handle. To exploit the information revolution in biology, biologists must move beyond canned Web interfaces and Excel spreadsheets. They must take charge of the data by creating their own software to fetch, manage and integrate it. The goal of this course is to provide biologists with the tools needed to deal with this changing landscape. Designed for students and researchers with little prior knowledge of programming, this two-week course will teach the fundamentals of the Unix operating system, Perl scripting, dynamic Web page development with the CGI protocol, and database design. The course combines formal lectures with hands-on experience in which students work to solve a series of problem sets drawn from common scenarios in biological data acquisition, integration, and laboratory workflow management. For their final projects, students will pose problems using their own data and work with each other and the faculty to solve them.
	Organized by:	Steve Rozen & Lincoln Stein
	Deadline for Abstracts:	Application Deadline July 15th
	Registration:	Please register online Deadline July 15th
	Email for Requests and Registration:	Meetings@cshl.org
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