Live Online Course – 2nd Edition

Elevate your Python Skills in Life Sciences

June 16th, 18th, and 20th, 2025

Contact: courses@transmittingscience.com

Course Intermediate Python Skills for Biologists

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Course Overview

Python is a user-friendly and powerful programming language for use in the biological sciences. While a basic understanding of Python provides a sufficient toolset for many applications and analyses, this course will dive into some additional concepts and applications of Python. This will not only give you new tools but will also help you think in new programming structures and be able to understand a wider range of Python code. This course will give participants hands-on practice with intermediate python techniques in addition to some practical theory.

The course will cover intermediate topics of the Python programming language, including functional and object-oriented programming as well as the library biopython and APIs.

By the end of this course, participants will understand:

What object-oriented programming is and how to implement it in Python
What functional programming is and how to implement it in Python (with a focus on higher order functions and list comprehension)
What an API is and how to access one
How to use the biopython library to analyze biological data

Participants of the course Introduction to Python for Biology can benefit from a 20 % discount on this course. If you have taken the introductory course in the past, or if you are taking both courses, please add that information in the registration form for this course.

Places are limited to 18 participants.

Programme

Day 1:

Object-Oriented Programming in Python

Day 2:

Functional Programming
List Comprehensions

Day 3:

Biopython
APIs

Assumed Background

Graduate or postgraduate degree in Life Sciences and basic knowledge of Statistics and Python. You should have an understanding of Python datatypes, looping, control flow, functions, file i/o, and error handling.

Dates & Schedule

Online live sessions on June 16th, 18th, and 20th, 2025.

From 13:00 to 16:30 (Madrid time zone).

16 hours (10.5 hours of online live lessons, plus 2.5 hours of pre-recorded lessons and 3 hours of independent practice).

Format

The course comprises pre-recorded lectures and online live sessions, where we will combine live coding and hands-on computational exercises.

Live sessions will be recorded. However, attendance to the live sessions is required to obtain the course certificate.

This course will be delivered in English.

Instructors

Nichole Bennett instructor fro Transmitting Science

Nic Bennett
Michigan State University
United States of America

Jo Villa Instructor for Transmitting Science

Jo Villa
KOTAI Biotechnologies, Inc.
Japan

Registration Fees

Course Fee
Early bird (until April 30th, 2025):
343 €
(274.4 € for Ambassador Institutions)
Regular (after April 30th, 2025):
412 €
(329.6 € for Ambassador Institutions)
Prices include VAT.
After registration you will receive confirmation of your acceptance on the course.
Payment is not required during registration. Check discounts here.
Participants of the course Introduction to Python for Biology can benefit from a 20% discount on this course.
How do I get the Ambassador Institution discount?
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