Gregor Mendel was able to formulate basic princples of genetics without knowing that DNA was the material carrying the factors. Today, our ability to understand genetics is tremendously enhanced by the availability of completely sequenced genomes for dozens of organisms. However, the functions of nearly all of these sequences are experimentally unknown. This course module explains how to access the extensive genomic data available and explores the computational approaches for interpreting them. It is aimed at students with a background in biochemistry and molecular biology who wish to understand core basics of genome sequence analysis
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