Laboratory Methods In Genomics
Fall, 2008
A. Malcolm Campbell
I am happy to announce that Davidson students will be working the the Joint Genome Institute (funded by DOE) to annotate an Archaeal genome. We will be selecting the species later, but students will be able to decode a genome that has never been analyzed before. Their work with be added to a database with the possibility of publishing their work.
This will be a stand alone lab course that is primarily data analysis by computer. DNA microarrays are fading fast but sequencing will be around for many more years. I wanted the students to be skilled in an area with more longevity than microarrays. So that's why the drastic change for next fall.
I am very excited about this. It will be a lot of fun to do real genomics research on a species we know almost nothing about. The species is supposed to have an "energy component" to its metabolism which is one reason DOE is interested.
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