Bacterial Genomes: Accessing and Analysing Microbial Genome Data

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Bacterial Genomes: Accessing and Analysing Microbial Genome Data

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Bacterial Genomes: Accessing and Analysing Microbial Genome Data

The course Bacterial Genomes: Accessing and Analysing Microbial Genome Data is an online class provided by Wellcome Genome Campus Advanced Courses and Scientific Conferences through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Learn more about how genomic data and computational tools can help us understand and track disease-causing bacteria.

Course description

Use computational tools to investigate microbial genomes
3 weeks

Applying increasingly powerful computation to genomics contributes to important medical breakthroughs.
On this course, you will discover the basic principles of microbial bioinformatics analysis, and comparative genomics. Using Artemis, a free genome browser, you will find out how to investigate whole bacterial genomes, and through the analysis of bacterial genes and proteins, you will explore the genomic features of pathogens.
By the end of this course, you will be able to use genomic data to increase your knowledge of microbial genomes.

Collect, access, and download whole bacterial genomes from public repositories
Investigate and navigate bacterial genomes and their annotation using Artemis
Identify genomic regions with low/high GC (guanine-cytosine) content, often associated with virulence
Perform simple comparative analyses between bacterial genomes

This course would benefit those interested in learning how to use tools to investigate bacterial genomes, and acquire bioinformatics skills to evaluate the role of microbial genes in disease. Using analytical tools to access and probe genomes, learners will find out how to perform comparative analyses of genes and their protein products.
The course will be of interest to undergraduates, post-graduates, researchers, bioinformaticians, microbiologists, and healthcare professionals. The opportunity to use online computational tools to probe bacterial genomes will also be of interest to teachers and their 16-18-year-old science and computing students.
Bacterial Genomes: From DNA to Protein Function using Bioinformatics is a recommended pre-requisite. Scientific terminology is explained.

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Bacterial Genomes: Accessing and Analysing Microbial Genome Data

Course Topic

Biology and Biotechnology, Healthcare & Medicine, Science, Engineering & Maths

University, College, Institution

Wellcome Genome Campus Advanced Courses and Scientific Conferences

Course Skill Level

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Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

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Certificate

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Bacterial Genomes: Accessing and Analysing Microbial Genome Data

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / Wellcome Genome Campus Advanced Courses and Scientific Conferences you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.

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