BIOTECH 7005 - Bioinformatics and Systems Modelling

Recent technological advances have brought large-scale DNA sequencing within the reach of small companies and research laboratories, and opened the door for research and applied uses for sequencing. This course teaches analysis of these data sets, and interpretation of the significance of the patterns found therein. This course provides an understanding of the specific considerations of different sequencing technologies, as well as an understanding of the algorithms used to align, assemble, and annotate sequence data. While DNA sequencing is useful for sequencing genomes, it also has widespread applications in methods used to understand interactions, whether they be within a cell or organism (signalling, regulation, protein function) or between organisms (at the level of populations, symbioses, and communities). This course also provides an understanding of these systems.