Natural Science 0251 - Bioinformatics:Community Analysis

Learn the foundations of bioinformatics with a hands-on class using data from the guts of bees (collaboration with Dr. Jennifer VanWyk!). We will explore how to analyze microbial population data from a large, diverse array of microorganisms by sequencing and analyzing 16S rRNA gene amplicons. This type of dataset is extremely common in environmental microbiology, medical microbiology, and even applies to other ecology fields. This course will focus heavily on coding using RStudio and large spreadsheets. The final report of this course will *hopefully* be published in a peer-reviewed journal! You are strongly encouraged to take Bioinformatics: Metagenomics Assembly alongside this course. Keywords:microbiology, bioinformatics, environmental, ecology, computational

Environments and Change This course can be used to fulfill the Division II Project requirement Students should expect to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time