Instructor: Jeramiah Smith

Course Description: Bioinformatics

Tentative Outline of Learning Process

1/29/21 Introduction to computational biology and the terminal (blast), file structure

basics, data sources.

2/05/21 Introduction to machine commands and remote access installing and compiling

programs, sequencing technologies.

2/12/21 Pre-proposals Group 1 …. Introduction to machine commands and remote

access installing and compiling programs

2/19/21 Pre-proposals Group 2 ….Intro to assembling transcriptomes and simple

genomes Take Home Quiz.

2/26/21 Assembling transcriptomes and simple genomes

3/05/21 Transcriptional profiling and statistical analysis (from sequence data) Due date

for Written Assignment

3/12/21 Analysis of SNPs and genomic features Take Home Quiz

3/19/21 Catchup of methods for primary data analysis.

3/26/21 NO CLASS ACADEMIC HOLIDAY

4/02/21 Visualizing and interpreting genomic/ transcriptomic data

4/09/21 Visualizing and interpreting genomic/ transcriptomic data Take Home Quiz

4/16/21 Class Presentations

4/23/21 Class Presentations

4/30/21 Class Presentations

5/07/21 Class Presentations