Introduction to Perl for Bioinformatics

1. What are Hard References.
2. Creating a reference to a named variable.
3. Dereferencing.
4. Using references for passing data to a subroutine.
5. Additional examples of dereferencing.
6. Dereferencing: accessing individual array or hash elements using the arrow operator.
7. Looping over elements of array and hash references.
8. Creating anonymous references.
9. Complex Data Structures - Introduction.
10. Creating a two-dimensional array.
11. Creating a two-dimensional array - Cont..
12. Reading the two-dimensional array data from a file.
13. Accessing data in the two-dimensional array.
14. Creating and manipulating a hash of arrays.
15. Non-homogeneous data structures.
16. Saving data structures to a file using the Data::Dumper module.
17. An example for saving structures to a file using Data::Dumper.
18. An example for reading data structures from a file using Data::Dumper.