BIO00087H Workshop 1: Revision, Q&A and poster guidance.

The module so far. And next steps.

Author

Daniel Jeffares

Published

July 17, 2024

DataCamp Classroom

During Semester 1 (16 September 2024 – 31 January 2025) you can join the BIO00087H Genomics 2024 ‘DataCamp Classroom’ using this link. Sign in with your University of York Google account. This will provide free access to the entire Introduction to Shell course.

1 Learning objectives

  1. To review material presented in lectures 1-6.
  2. To learn about the poster presentation.

1.1 Reviewing lecture material

Lectures were as follows:

  • L1: Module outline and the core knowledge base
  • L2: Principles in genomics, genome size and style in the tree of life
  • L3: Small genomes: viral, prokaryotic and single-celled eukaryotes
  • L4: Large eukaryotic genomes: plant and vertebrate genomics
  • L5: Transcriptomics and proteomics
  • L6: Systems biology

We will run through the main topics discussed. Please ask questions.

1.2 Poster presentations

1.3 Deadlines

  • Complete your poster by the evening of Tuesday 7th November
  • Upload your poster to the BIO00087H poster upload folder
  • Posters will be sent to the printer on Wednesday 8th November.
  • Poster Presentations are Monday, 13 November 14:00 – 18:00 in B/T/019.

Detailed doster guidance is here

1.4 Planning for your report

The only summative assessment for BIO00087H is a 2000 word report. Your report should have two parts:

  1. An introduction (up to 1000 words*). This should be a literature review, covering material that is relevant to the data analysis you chose to do. Don’t attempt a general genomics introduction!

  2. A bioinformatic data analysis section (up to 1000 words*). During the module, we will show you how to analyse data to carry out these analyses on various test data sets:

  • Genome assembly annotation and BLAST (Workshop 3)
  • Bulk RNAseq analysis (Workshop 4)
  • Single cell RNAseq analysis (Workshop 5)
  • Population genomics (Workshop 7)

For your report, you should choose one of these analyses methods, and repeat it on a larger data set that we provide. All data sets are in /shared/biology/bioldata1/bl-00087h/data.

  • These word limits are maximums, not targets. You can achieve a very high grade with a substantially shorter report.

Detailed information is available in the BIO00087H - Genomics report guide.