In this class, students will collect environmental samples and study the diversity of their microorganism population. For this purpose, Oxford Nanopore sequencing and downstream analysis with state-of-the-art computational methods will be performed.
Environmental DNA isolation and sequencing will provide additional wet lab experience. In the larger part of this course, the students will analyse the generated data in depth using state-of-the-art bioinformatics tools e.g. genome assembly, gene prediction, analysis of species diversity, and comparison of data sets. Thus, this course provides an all-in-one combination of molecular biology experiments and computational analysis. It introduces students to practical work in modern molecular biological research as well as motivates the exploration of bioinformatics methods.
Course prerequisite: BIO_2S002_EP
