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Course description

This course will provide a practical introduction to genomics and bioinformatics. The course will cover next-generation sequencing, biological databases, sequence alignment, similarity searches, genome browsers, molecular evolution, human disease genetics and proteomics. In the first half of the course students will undertake computer-based practical modules that will provide hands-on experience with the latest on-line genomics and bioinformatics tools. Students will then undertake a research project, under the supervision of a biological expert, which will develop their ability to apply various bioinformatics tools to the analysis of real biological problems. This course is designed to enable biological sciences students without a solid background in computing to gain an understanding of the important concepts underlying bioinformatics together with a thorough grounding in the use of standard computational techniques to analyse biological sequence data.