This document provides information about a 1-credit Perl programming lab course offered in the spring 2009 term at the University of Miami Department of Biology. The course will be taught on Tuesdays from 11:00-1:50PM in Room Cox 108. The objective is to teach students how to use Perl scripting to automate and accelerate genetic and genomic data analysis. Students will learn skills like regular expressions, arrays, hashes, parsing XML files, and using the Bioperl toolkit. The course grade will be based primarily on lab assignments completed during class time.