The course aims to provide basic knowledge in PERL scripting to biomedical researchers. At the end of the course, participants should be able to write small PERL scripts to:
- Import/export data from/to Excel spreadsheets;
- Retrieve relevant information from a text file and convert it to different formats;

Requirements:
No particular programming knowledge is required in order to attend the course.

Important:
To ensure a working setup for the hands-on sessions, every participant is requested to bring his own laptop with > 2GB RAM, >5GB available hard drive space and a working wireless connection.
Accepted OSes are: Linux(es), Mac OSX and Windows (XP,Vista,Seven).

More details about required additional software will be provided later.