Quantitative Genomics / Genomics and Computational Biology

Syllabus

1. Week 1

   Genome sequencing technologies — past to present

2. Week 2

   Assembly; alignment to references

3. Week 3

   Variant calling; quality control

4. Week 4

   Comparative genomics; conservation

5. Week 5

   Transcriptomics; expression analysis

6. Week 6

   Regulatory genomics; epigenetics

7. Week 7

   Population genetics — Hardy-Weinberg, drift, selection

8. Week 8

   GWAS; complex traits

9. Week 9

   Cancer genomics; somatic evolution

10. Week 10

    Microbiome analysis

11. Week 11

    Synthetic biology; genome engineering

12. Week 12

    Personal genomics; ethics