Fourteen years ago we started the\nProgramming in the Life Sciences (PRA3006).\nThe course is designed as a practical, because there surely is theory, but programming is also\nskills. Originally it was zooming in on pharmacology and the Open PHACTS webservices\n(see this,\nthis,\nand this post).\nBy now, the focus is on life sciences SPARQL endpoints.
\n\nOver the years, not all, but a good number of students have made their project available on GitHub, each with a separate\nbiologically-oriented research question. In this post, I collect a number of them. Because webservices change, some\ncode may not work anymore, but the overview of questions the students were able to study or even answer is\ninteresting in itself. Some years students worked in small teams, some years alone.
\n\nI will add some more, including in brackets which SPARQL endpoint was used.
", "summary": "Fourteen years ago we started the Programming in the Life Sciences (PRA3006). The course is designed as a practical, because there surely is theory, but programming is also skills. Originally it was zooming in on pharmacology and the Open PHACTS webservices (see this, this, and this post). By now, the focus is on life sciences SPARQL endpoints.", "date_published": "2026-10-30T00:00:00+00:00", "date_modified": "2026-10-30T00:00:00+00:00", "tags": ["pra3006","sparql","wikidata","wikipathways","chembl"], "authors": [ { "name": "Egon Willighagen", "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7542-0286" } ] } ] }