Genome Sequencing (Bioinformatics II)

About this course

You’ll have heard lots about genome sequencing and its potential to usher within the period of customized medication, however what does genome sequencing imply?

Biologists nonetheless cannot learn the nucleotides of a whole genome such as you learn a e-book from starting to finish. Nonetheless, they will learn brief items of DNA. On this course, we’ll see how graph principle can be utilized to assemble genomes from these brief items. We’ll dig deeper into brute drive algorithms and apply them to sequencing small proteins referred to as antibiotics. Within the first half of the course, we’ll see that biologists cannot learn the three billion nucleotides of the human genome the way in which you’d learn a e-book from starting to finish. Nonetheless, they will learn shorter DNA fragments. On this course, we’ll see how graph principle can be utilized to assemble genomes from these brief items in numbers into the most important jigsaw puzzle ever put collectively. Within the second half of the course, we are going to focus on antibiotics, a really related matter as antimicrobial-resistant micro organism similar to MRSA are on the rise. You understand antibiotics as medicine, however on the molecular stage, they’re brief little proteins which have been made by micro organism to destroy their enemies. Figuring out the sequence of the amino acids that make up one in every of these antibiotics is a crucial analysis drawback, and the same drawback to figuring out the sequence of a genome by assembling small fragments of DNA. We’ll see how brute drive algorithms attempt each attainable resolution to establish naturally occurring antibiotics to allow them to be synthesized within the lab. Lastly, you’ll learn to apply widespread bioinformatics software program instruments to sequence the genome of a useless Staphylococcus micro organism that’s immune to antibiotics.

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Abilities you’ll acquire

• Algorithms
• Python Programming
• Complete genome sequencing
• Dynamic programming

Syllabus – What you’ll study from this course

Weekfirst

Week 1

Week 1: Introduction to genome sequencing

Welcome to the classroom!

This course will deal with the highest two questions of contemporary computational biology, together with the algorithmic approaches we’ll use to resolve them in parentheses:

1. Weeks 1-2: How will we assemble genomes? ( Graph Algorithm )
2. How will we sequence antibiotics? ( Brute Drive Algorithms )

Every of the 2 chapters at school is accompanied by a Bioinformatics Cartoon created by gifted San Diego artist Randall Christopher and serves because the chapter title within the collection. companion in Specialty’s finest vendor. Yow will discover the cartoon of the primary chapter on the finish of this letter. What does the time machine’s journey to 1735, a stack of newspapers, a jigsaw puzzle, and an enormous ant colonizing a riverside metropolis need to do with fusing a genome collectively? Begin studying at the moment to search out out!

Week2

Week 2

Week 2: Making use of Euler’s Theorem to Assemble Genomes

Welcome to Week 2 of Courses!

This week at school, we’ll see how a 300-year-old mathematical theorem will assist us assemble genomes from hundreds of thousands of tiny items of DNA.

Week3

Week 3

Week 3: Antibiotic sequence

Welcome to Week 3 of Courses!

This week, we start a brand new chapter, titled “How Do We Sequence Antibiotics?” & nbsp; On this chapter, we are going to study & nbsp; the way to decide the amino acid sequences that make up antibiotics utilizing brute drive algorithms.

Right here is that this week’s Bioinformatics Cartoon.

Week4

Week 4

Week 4: From preferrred to true spectrum for antibiotic sequencing

Welcome to Week 4 of Courses!

Final week, we mentioned the way to sequence antibiotic peptides from a perfect spectrum. This week, we are going to see the way to develop extra refined algorithms for antibiotic peptide sequencing that may deal with spectra with plenty of false and lacking lots.

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Week5

Week 5

Week 5: Bioinformatics App Problem!

Welcome to Week 5 of Courses!

This week, we’ll see the way to apply genome meeting instruments to sequence information from a harmful disease-causing bacterium.