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Colloquium Outline:

1) General overview of bioinformatics
2) Our specific interests
3) Explorations with Perl

   -Other languages that could be used, too
   -Chp. 9
   -Chp. 10 (genebank)

4) Idea for a course
5) Present Syllabus
6) Scaffolded assignments
7) Future directions

2) Our specific interests

Contrasting our experience with bioinfo in EC classes and in the "real world" Damian will talk about his work at ORNL and Wash U Erika will talk about her work at NIH

-use this to illustrate why we felt an independent study was beneficial (as an introduction for the course proposal later in the talk) -also gives real examples of bioinfo applications that should be relevant to other students

3) Explorations with Perl Introduce the idea that many other scripting languages could be used. Then talk about the subject of our independent study.

• Easy to program
  

 -Many built in functions for common bioinformatics tasks
 -examples

• Faster to program
  
• Fewer lines of code
  
• Commonly used
  
• Numerous modules