If you are an accomplished coder, then you can write a separate program for every new task you encounter. In practice, these programs only need to be written once and packaged into modules, where those of us who are not great coders can use them quickly and efficiently. In this first series of exercises, we will familiarize ourselves with a sampling of some of the more popular bioinformatics tools taken from “out of the box” software. In preparation:

• read chapter 00 in the textbook: Prologue
• get yourself familiar with the BioPython module