Postgraduate Course: Computing Skills for Drug Discovery (PGBI11069)

Course Outline
School	School of Biological Sciences	College	College of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	Online Distance Learning Course Next Generation Drug Discovery necessarily will involve students being able to perform computing tasks that won&©t always be &«off the shelf&ª. Often these will involve short programs to change formats to link together software that hasn&©t been designed to be interoperable; or it will involve parsing out text from searches, or comparing lists from different sources. Students should also be competent at writing web interfaces to these programs so that they can be shared, and so be independent of operating system or programming language. The course will involve students writing their own programming solutions to authentic tasks in Drug Discovery.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students should be able to: &· Code, test and document programs to change formats of data to allow other programs to work in a pipeline, and to extract data and compare it from different sources; &· Write web interfaces to programs; &· Code an unfamiliar equation, attaching the variables to sliders to investigate the behaviour of the equation; &· Appreciate the utility of documenting and reusing programming code in new contexts; &· Implement robust backup of work; &· Appreciate maintenance of computer software; &· Acquire knowledge of how to script common tasks