Comparative Microbial Genomics: A Bioinformatics Approach

Performance will be evaluated by an oral podcast of at least 5 minutes (10%), a poster (15%), a journal club report (25%), and a final written manuscript (50%). See the course schedule for more information about grading and course aims and objectives.

The textbook is written specifically for this course: COMPUTING FOR COMPARATIVE GENOMICS: Bioinformatics for Microbiologists by David W. Ussery, Stefano Borini, and Trudy M. Wassenaar Springer, to be published in autumn, 2008.       Link to Amazon.com        Link to pdf of page proofs        Note that the DTU bookstore has ordered 100 copies of the text, to be delivered as soon as the book is published; pdfs of chapters will be available through the campus net site for this course. Links to PDF files for relevant papers will be provided on this web page (see below). This is the eighth year for this course, which was first taught in the autumn of 2001. Links to the course programme for     2007 ,     2006 ,     2005 ,     2004 ,     2003     and     2002 .     Also, one-week versions of the course have been taught at other locations:     Thailand, June 2008,     Brazil, August 2007,     Oslo, Norway, October 2006,     Brazil, August 2006,     Thailand, March 2005,

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