Regular Expression lesson for Otago MiniBaz 2020

This is the repository for the regular expression (regex) lesson at Otago MiniBaz 2020.

What you need for this lesson

Only thing you will need for this lesson is a working internet, internet browser, and access to a terminal.

If you have done the SWC bash lesson, this will not be a problem for you.

If you haven't set up your computer for the bash lesson, you can do so by following the instructions from this page.

You will also need to download this repository, either through Git on command line or by downloading the repo as a zip file, and place it somewhere you can access through terminal.

Overview

There are several example files to practice regular expressions with, which some may be of practical use in your future work and/or study.

Here is a brief overview of the example files:

• lc_regex_files contain files used in the Library Carpentry Regular Expression lesson
• encode_regex contains a meta-data file that has information on some of the publicly available data from ENCODE project
• gtex_egenes includes data on genes that have significant eQTL in various human tissues and cell types from the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Project

In the first part of the lesson, we will be going through the Library Carpentry's material on regular expression to learn the basics of regex, and how to build them.

In the second part of the lesson, we will be using real data provided in encode_regex and gtex_egenes to practice how to use grep, sed, and awk (and possibly other) programs.

TODO

• Focus more on grep and sed
• Add regex challenges to each directory
• Add READMEs to each directory