MSCBIO 2025: Introduction to bioinformatics programming in Python

Fall 2025

This page provides a rough outline of topics that we will cover in the course. Details for each lecture will appear on the main page.

Topic 1: Course overview and introduction to Python

• Introduction to MSCBIO 2025
• Working with the command line
• Python, Jupyter, and GitHub

Topic 2: Principles of coding and data analysis in Python (interwoven with Topic 3)

• Data visualization
• Principles of code design
• Function fitting
• Principles of data analysis

Topic 3: Simple biological applications (interwoven with Topic 2)

• Integrating differential equations
• Systems biology modeling
• Simple sequence analysis

Topic 4: Protein structure

• Structure analysis with ProDy
• Molecular dynamics