Prerequisites: BCH 110C or BCH 110HC or BIOL 107A; BIOL 102; graduate standing
Description: Strategies for genomic and bioinformatic studies with focus on the tools of the trade. Topics include the sequencing, assembly, and annotation of genomes, transcriptome analysis, similarity searching, pattern recognition, genome evolution, and phylogenetic analysis. Discusses papers from bacterial, fungal, plant, and metazoan systems.