Regular expressions
This course introduces regular expressions that can be used to find patterns in textual data, including nucleic acid and protein sequences. It is aimed at colleagues who wish to write their own data analysis scripts and are familiar with Python and/or R and/or the UNIX command line.
Instructor: András Aszódi.
Topics
- Introduction to regular expressions.
- Practical examples:
- Python regular expressions
- Regular expressions in R
- How to use the UNIX command grep
Out of scope
This course focuses on regular expressions as a general computational tool. We will not address concrete bioinformatics applications.
Prerequisites
The generic principles of regular expressions can be understood without any programming experience. To profit from the practical examples, at least one of the following (but not all!) is required:-
Practical information
Number of participants: minimum 5, maximum 10.
Length: The course takes a half day, usually from 09:00 to 13:00.