This two-week course (in person only) is designed for graduate students and researchers in veterinary and animal sciences. It will be delivered by a team of internationally renowned bioinformaticians.
NB. Entry requirements for the course include an undergraduate degree in Agriculture, Life Sciences or Veterinary Medicine.
The course will cover basic scripting, an introduction to next-generation sequencing, protein structure modelling and analysis, molecular evolution and phylogenetics, and network biology. The course will be largely focused on Bioinformatic analysis of the mammalian genome taking RNA Seq and also GWAS data sets and how to do the analysis.
Course objectives include:
• Knowledge and understanding of
• Scripting, next generation sequencing, protein structure modelling, molecular evolution and genetics, SNP data and use in GWAS
• Application of knowledge to genomic data sets
• Critical analysis and evaluation of data
• Communication of conclusions and knowledge
• Implementation of experimental design to future projects
A two-hour examination (part 1 short answer questions 1h and part 2 MCQ 1h) will take place on Brightspace (virtual learning environment) the last day of the course.