Full course description
Jackson Laboratory is offering a course to introduce the theory and practice of genomics. It is designed to orient undergraduate and graduate students to the field of Genomics and familiarizes students with the tools and principles of contemporary genomics. Students will develop a working knowledge of current genomics technology and approaches as well as the types of databases and computational tools available in the field today.
Reviewed Topics
- Overview of genomes
- Genomic sequencing and mapping
- Comparative genomics
- Transcriptomes
- Population genetics and genomics
- Basic bioinformatics
- Population-level variation (SNPs, MNPs, indels)
- Genomic ethics
- Evolutionary genomics
- Functional genomics.
Course Goals:
- Familiarity with genomic methods.
- Demonstrate thinking in terms of genomic scale.
- Generate interest in emergent biological studies.
- Demystify modern genomics methods and concepts.
- Identify and define necessary jargon.
- Discover basic biology in the context of theoretical and applied genomics research.
- Cite the broad applications of genomics.
- Demonstrate proficiency with basic web-based genomics tools.
- Demonstrate the benefits of using math and computer sciences in understand biology in genome scale.