Summer Research Week 5 (08/01 - 08/05)

Great progress! This week there will be two major focuses:

Bioinformatics

1. Bioinformatics Methods I, Coursera: Go through the materials of week 3.

Python & NLTK

1. In order to apply Natural Language Processing (NLP) to biomedical fields, you will have to learn a programming language- Python and a platform- Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK). 
2. Go to https://www.python.org/downloads/ to download and install the most recent version (3.5.2) of Python.   
3. Launch the "Terminal" in the Applications > Utilities folder. In the terminal, run the following commands: (Let me know if you have any problem. I have tried a few times, and finally made it work.)
   

   • Install pip: run sudo easy_install pip 

   • Install NLTK: run sudo pip install -U nltk 

   • Install Numpy: run sudo pip install -U numpy 

   • Run Python: run python

   • Test installation: type import nltk

4. Now, you can go to http://www.nltk.org/, and follow the "Some simple things you can do with NLTK".