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Assignment 3: Pre-reading and Tutorials
- What is a Gene?
- Read Pearson, Helen. 2006. What is a gene? Nature. Vol. 441: 25. What is a gene Nature 2006.pdf
- Print/Download the question worksheet. 2010 What is a Gene Pre-Institute Assignment.doc This will be used to help generate discussion during the opening night of the institute.
- How to retrieve a BLAST sequence
- Download and follow this tutorial. Retrieve a BLAST sequence.doc
Assignment 2: Pre-reading
Download the following:
2010 Bioinformatics Readings.pdf
Invited Speaker – Sam Donovan, Universityof Pittsburgh
▪ Baum, David A., Stacey DeWitt and Samuel S. Donovan. 2005. The tree thinking challenge. Science. Vol. 310: 979-980.
Invited Speaker – Brad Goodner, Hiram College
▪ Gerstein, Mark B., Can Bruce, Joel S. Rozowsky, Deyou Zheng, Jiang Du, Jan O. Korbel, Olof Emanuelsson, Zhengdong D. Zhang, Sherman Weissman and Michael Snyder. 2007. What is a gene, post-ENCODE? History and updated definition. Genome Research. Vol. 17: 669-681.
▪ Goodner, Brad. 2006. So you want to include bioinformatics in your course-go for it! Focus on Microbiology Education. Vol. 12, Number 3. p. 4-5.
▪ Goodner, Brad W., Cathy A. Wheeler, Prudy J. Hall, and Steven C. Slater. 2003. Massively Parallel Undergraduates for Bacterial Genome Finishing. ASM News. Vol. 69, Number 12.
Invited Speaker – Cheryl Kerfeld, Joint Genome Institute
▪ Pevsner, J. Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (Blast). Chapter 4. Bioinformatics and Structural Genomics. Wiley-Bass, 2003.
Invited Speaker – Kathleen Scott, University of South Florida
▪ Pevsner, J. Protein Analysis and Proteomics. Chapter 8. Bioinformatics and Structural Genomics. Wiley-Bass, 2003.
Assignment 1: Introduction
1) Describe your teaching responsibilities and relationship to bioinformatics training/instruction,
2) Describe what you would like to take home as a result of attending the Institute, and
3) Tell us about your interests outside of the classroom and a book that you've read recently
- Tag page
- What links here
Files 5
| File | Size | Date | Attached by | |||
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 | Tcruno_genome.pdf An annotation paper where undergrads played a major role in annotating the genome | 4.23 MB | 11:39, 14 Mar 2009 | kscott | Actions | |
| | 2010 Bioinformatics Readings.pdf No description | 6.94 MB | 17:26, 17 Feb 2010 | kdaley | Actions |
| Retrieve a BLAST sequence.doc No description | 205.5 kB | 14:53, 1 Mar 2010 | kdaley | Actions | |
| What is a gene Nature 2006.pdf No description | 676.97 kB | 14:53, 1 Mar 2010 | kdaley | Actions | |
| 2010 What is a Gene Pre-Institute Assignment.doc No description | 28 kB | 14:53, 1 Mar 2010 | kdaley | Actions | |