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Introduction to Genomic TechnologiesBy Steven Salzberg, Jeff Leek

In a Nutshell

This Johns Hopkins University course introduces the basic concepts of genomics, genetic sequencing, as well as statistical and computational methods that help scientists derive valuable information from the vast sea of genomic data.

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The introduction of next-generation sequencing technology, which has made sequencing so fast and so cheap, has allowed scientists to come up with all sorts of creative new types of experiments that they can use sequencing to do.

Steven Salzberg

Introduction

By discovering DNA and techniques to sequence it, researchers found a way to tap into the code of life, forever changing our approach to the study of living organisms.

What we didn't expect to find is the unbelievable amount of information stored in such tiny packages.

Human DNA is composed of billions of nucleic base pairs and thousands of genes.

Luckily, we have the tools of computer science and statistics to help us decode the extensive data sets written in the sequences of nucleic acids and study them.

In this course, two renowned Johns Hopkins University professors, computational biologist Steven Salzberg and biostatistician Jeff Leek, introduce the fundamentals of genomic science.

Salzberg and Leek also explore the basic computational and statistical approaches employed by modern genomic researchers.

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