Course Catalog 2012-2013
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Course Catalog 2012-2013

SGN-6166 Introduction to R programming, 3 cr

Additional information

Course will be lectured every other year. Course will not be lectured in the academic year 2012-2013. The credits of this course can be used for replacing SGN-6156 Computational Systems Biology II.
Suitable for postgraduate studies
Will not be lectured year 2012-2013

Person responsible

Tommi Aho, Reija Autio

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 familiar with selected packages provided by Bioconductor.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Basic programming skills with R      

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

Last modified08.11.2012