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5325. Computational Genomics Practicum
2.00 credits
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
A practical introduction to computational genomics focusing on methods for processing/analyzing Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data. 1. Programming: Introduction to the Linux command line, elements of Python and R programming. 2.Genomics software tools for performing sequence read-alignments, transcript-expression profiling, and robust procedures for gauging differential gene expression. 3. Methods for genome assembly, genome variation detection, motif-finding, and data-visualization. 4. Statistical topics include: probability distributions, central limit theorem, hypothesis testing, linear models, and dimensionality reduction.
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