Courses

Python for biomedical research

Types
Face-to-face
Date of registration period
Start date
Monday, April 27, 2026
End date
Monday, May 11, 2026
Teachers

UdL Bioinformatics Unit
 

  • Program: The aim of this course is to help research staff in the life sciences acquire basic knowledge of this programming language, including loading sequence data, setting up a database using the Pandas library, and using Python to process text files in different formats, among others. 

    • Session1: Basics. Installing Anaconda and working in the cloud with Google collab. Jupyter notebooks. Basic syntax in python. Installing packages. Writing simple programs: handling DNA sequences.

    • Session 2: Basic Data analysis with Pandas. Organizing data in a DataFrame. Exploratory data analysis. Basic statistics and plotting.

    • Session 3: Biopython. Working with common formats. Genomes and annotations.

  • Duration: 9h.
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    • 27/04/2026 - Seminar Room 2.21 (Teaching Unit, UdL, opposite IRBLleida)
    • 04/05/2026 - Seminar Room 2.21 (Teaching Unit, UdL, opposite IRBLleida)
    • 11/05/2026 - Seminar Room 2.21 (Teaching Unit, UdL, opposite IRBLleida)
  • Time: 9.00-12.00.

  • Language: Catalan, Spanish or English

  • Registration open.