Welcome! In this course, we will engage in exploring how genomics tools can be used to understand the natural world. The rapid advance of sequencing technologies has brought us into the genomic era, where entire genomes of single organisms or partial genomes of many organisms from the same environment can be sequenced much more easily than ever before.
Knowledge Goals
- Build a foundational knowledge of how reference genomes of organisms and related genomic data are created and used in biological research;
- Comprehend and analyze technical papers that describe software that apply bioinformatics (mathematical methods of analyzing DNA sequences) approaches to genomic data;
- Establish a practice of taking detailed and complete computer lab notes to ultimately teach oneself analyses;
- Synthesize different approaches to analyzing genomic data to ultimately apply one’s own hypotheses to genomic data publicly available through sequence data archives