Gramene at Programming for Biology 2015

The Gramene group continued a long-standing tradition of teaching and support at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Programming for Biology taught course led by Simon Prochnik and Sophia Robb that ran October 11-27th 2015. Twenty biologists were given an intensive introduction to programming in the Perl language and its use in genome assembly, RNA-seq analysis and building web sites.

Joseph Mulvaney gave a lecture introducing the students to HTML, and he and Michael Campbell provided one-on-one assistance to students during hands-on workshop sessions. They also mentored a group of five students during a three-day group project where they produced a web-based tool to identify snoRNAs in genomic sequences.