Course Catalog 2011-2012
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Course Catalog 2011-2012

SGN-6166 Introduction to R programming, 3 cr

Additional information

Course will be lectured every other year. Course will be lectured in the academic year 2011-2012. The credits of this course can be used for replacing SGN-6156 Computational Systems Biology II.
Suitable for postgraduate studies

Person responsible

Tommi Aho, Reija Autio

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
Excercises


 
 2 h/week
 2 h/week


 


 


 
SGN-6166 2011-01 Monday 10 - 12, TC303

Requirements

Weekly exercises and a coding exam.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Learning outcomes

The student will master basic programming skills with R programming language. This includes the use of data structures, the control of program execution, simple mathematical manipulations, and result visualization. The student will be able to implement simple programs in R. In addition, the student will be able to install and use the most often used packages provided by Bioconductor.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Basic programming skills with R      
2. Installation and use of Bioconductor packages      

Evaluation criteria for the course

The final grade is based on a coding exam where students implement small programs in R. The completion of weekly exercises gives extra points that may increment the grade.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Edition, availability, ... Examination material Language
Other online content           Material you may find useful.      English  
Online book   An Introduction to R   W. N. Venables, D. M. Smith and the R development Core Team            English  
Online book   Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Solutions Using R and Bioconductor   Gentleman, Carey, Huber, Irizarry and Dudoit   978-0-387-25146-2          English  

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Correspondence of content

There is no equivalence with any other courses

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
SGN-6166 2011-01 Students will learn basic programming skills with R. In addition, most often used packages provided by Bioconductor will be in use.        

Last modified01.02.2011