Advanced Microbial Bioinformatics. (3-0) 3 Credit Hours

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Prerequisite: BIO 2313 or equivalent; MMI 6643 , enrollment in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Ph.D. program required, or permission of the Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Department or instructor. With the advent of next generation sequencing (NGS), genomes and transcriptomes are being added at ever growing rates to the public sequence repositories, which poses challenges for comprehensive data analyses and mining. In this course, students will learn and apply bioinformatics tools and strategies - from the profiling of individual genomes to large-scale multi-isolate comparisons - to harvest the rich information content that can be found in big sequence data. This course focuses on microbial genomics/transcriptomics/evolution with focus on pathogens. This course has Differential Tuition. Course Fee: GS01 $90; IUB2 $10.