Datamining Remote Data by Jaime Prilusky Part of a continuous series of hands-on on Perl programming techniques to automatize data mining and data processing, specially oriented to bioinformatics. [books]

The general 'Datamining Remote Data' idea. Why a scripting language? A few popular programing languages. What's in a programming language? Compiled vs Interpreted General information First Program (the bare necessities) Second Program (the not so bare necessities) The Basic Tools (or everything you should already know) Data transfer templates and ideas Data analysis templates and ideas Data delivery templates and ideas List with URLs to retrieve data from suggestion: create a script that will retrieve from OCA PDB entries related to the human specie, with resolution between 0.5 and 1.8, with the keyword 'hydrolase' and that contains the text 'cancer'. Retrieve and store the returned data. Run a few times, requesting from OCA all the sequences in FASTA format, the PDB header only and the full PDB file. Software you may need for your own computer Download Perl for Linux, Solaris and Windows Download Apache web server Related details and examples from Perl Programming Course for Bioinformatics Object-Oriented and Database Programming for Bioinformatics Bioperl and other fundamental Perl modules