During recent decades we have witnessed a great development of bioinformatics that has led to the accumulation of a huge amount of biological information. The Bioinformatics and computational Biology aim at dealing with this large volume of data so that biological information can be extracted, generating scientific knowledge. Handling and mining big data is currently a subject of great interest and importance.

This course aim at familiarizing the attendees with the unix environment and shell scripting. The participants will develop and implement querying algorithms in order to generate metadata for analysis.

Date: July 11th, 2018 to July 13th, 2018
Deadline for Applications: June 8th, 2018