BINF 650: Introduction to Databases for Bioinformatics

Term

Every Spring since 2008.

Content

This course will cover an introduction to databases and some database theory. Applications of the knowledge will be applied to bioinformatics databases. By the end of the course the students will be able to construct a web page interface to a database, where anonymous users can produce queries and receive results.

• Spreadsheets and why they are so limited
• Databases and basic queiries
• Biological data
• Efficiency in creating queries and tables
• Compound queries
• Views and triggers
• Python and CGI