Selected Topics in Zoology (Section 28325):
Cyberinfrastructure-enabled Computational Genome Science - A Laboratory

BIOL Z620 Spring 2013

Course description

BIOL Z620 CGSL

Lecture times and locations

Mon, Wed 9:30a - 10:45a (Credits: 1.5); Swain East (SE) 045

Tentative schedule

HTML version of this schedule

DAYDATELECTURETOPICLECTURER
Mon Mar 4 1.1 Orientation
Introduction to cyberinfrastructure resources

Some useful tutorials:
SSH
Linux Command Shell 		Volker Brendel
Wed Mar 6 1.2 Introduction to NGS data
Quality control issues 		Instructors
Mon Mar 11 SPRING BREAK - no class n/a
Wed Mar 13 SPRING BREAK - no class n/a
Mon Mar 18 2.1 De novo prokaryotic genome assembly Instructors
Wed Mar 20 2.2 De novo eukaryotic genome assembly Instructors
Mon Mar 25 3.1 De novo transcriptome assembly Instructors
Wed Mar 27 3.2 Project work on transcriptome assembly Instructors
Mon April 1 4.1 Re-sequencing
Mapping of short reads to reference genomes 		Instructors
Wed April 3 4.2 Project work on read mapping Instructors
Mon April 8 5.1 Introduction to genome annotation Instructors
Wed April 10 5.2 Project work on genome annotation Instructors
Mon April 15 6.1 Introduction to genome browsers
Editing of annotation tracks 		Instructors
Wed April 17 6.2 Project work on genome visualization Instructors
Mon April 22 7.1 Final project preparation Students
Wed April 24 7.2 Video Chat with Dr. Nirav Merchant, University of Arizona, iPlant
Final project preparation 		Students
Wed May 1 11:59pm Final Projects due Students