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Practical Information

The aim of this course is to give the students a solid knowledge of methods for determining microbial meta-, core- and pan-genomes, based on the genome sequences of a set of related organisms or microbial communities. They should be able to understand and apply this information to practical uses, such as screening large segments of sequenced DNA extracted from wide-ranging environmental samples, classification of bacterial species as well as the design of high-density microarray chips. Furthermore, it is a goal that the students learn to formulate interesting problems/questions that can be addressed by pangenome-chip and advanced metagenomics analysis.

Lectures and exercises will take place at the Technical University of Denmark, building 208, room 062, in Lyngby.

Exam

Written Exam, 4 hours
Date: 10-12-2009

Excercises

Mail the lab/exercise reports to exercises27621@cbs.dtu.dk
Check out the Exercise Checklist to see which exercises you are missing.

Reading material:

Exact details as to which chapters and which papers are considered curriculum will be given as the course progresses.

• The new science of metagenomics
• Computing for Comparative Microbial Genomics
• Any articels handed out during lectures
• Everything talked about during the lectures and labs

Software and services used in some exercises:

• Phylo_win
• ClustalX
• iTOL: Interactive Tree Of Life

Lecture Schedule

Lecture and lab canceled due to illness

Lecture canceled