DNA
BIO/COMP 121
Wheaton College, Norton, MA

Getting set-up in Windows ...

  Install SmartFTP --if you need to move files around ...

  Install WinZip --if you can not unZip these downloads ...

  Install Perl -- a .zip file with ActivePerl engine and OpenPerl IDE

 

Starting with Perl ...

  Starting with Perl -- intro to DNA sequence and programming in Perl in three exercises
    (0) Gazing at Sequence -- explore NCBI's GenBank, download and annotate DNA sequence
    (1) Hello DNA -- intro to programming in Perl
    (2) DNA Length -- DNA sequence and intro to Perl functions

   Chargaff's Numbers -- a first programming assignment in Perl

   Mini Gene Finder -- practice with conditionals and the Central Dogma

   regEx and Perl play -- practice with regular expressions from within Perl

   Motif Finder (Program #3) -- searching upstream promoter regions for direct, mirror, and other motifs

   Fuzzy Olfaction Gene Finder (Final Project) --
  searching for hydrophobic sequences of amino acids in seven transmembrane proteins