Course Description

This course will provide an introduction to the use of cultivation-independent environmental genome sequence data for analyzing natural microbial communities.  Topics will include major questions in microbial ecology that can be addressed using genomic technologies, a survey of bioinformatic tools used to analyze such data (assembly, binning, annotation, and comparative genomics), and post-genomic methodologies that can further be employed to investigate natural microbial phenomena.

Prerequisites: BIBC102 (Metabolic Biochemistry), BICD100 (Genetics)