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BIOL 708G Advanced Topics in Biology: Genetics and Genome Data Analysis, is a graduate level course in computational biology. The Fall 2009 course focuses on implications of high-throughput, short-read sequencing technology (e.g., as generated by Roche-454, Illumina, SOLiD) for studies in molecular evolution, systematics, and molecular ecology. Among the topics covered include experimental design, data analysis, strengths and weaknesses of short-read data, computational requirements, and contrasts with conventional long-read (i.e., Sanger sequencing) approaches. The emphasis will be thinking through how best to make use of new sequencing technologies to answer questions of interest.
The course consists of readings, discussions, and course project, which is a written grant proposal.
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