Natural Science 0253 - Bioinformatics: Metagenomic Analysis

Learn how to assemble a genome of a parasite that infects bees (collaboration with Dr. Jennifer VanWyk!). We will analyze shotgun metagenomic data to understand this parasite's functions in the guts of bees by annotating specific proteins, functions, and enzymes. This type of data set is extremely common in environmental microbiology and medical microbiology. We will focus heavily on using KBase and spreadsheets, while occasionally learning about python and submitting jobs to slurm clusters. The final report of this course will *hopefully* be published in a peer-reviewed journal! You are strongly encouraged to take Bioinformatics: Community Analysis 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