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

The module so far. And next steps.

Author

Daniel Jeffares

Published

September 17, 2025

How to use DataCamp Classroom

This will give you access to the entire Introduction to Shell course.

  1. Join the BIO00087H Genomics 20250-26 Classroom using this link
  2. Sign in with your University of York Google account
  3. Work through the Introduction to Shell course

These sections will be required:

  1. Manipulating files and directories
  2. Manipulating data
  3. Combining tools

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: Evolutionary and Population Genomics

L7 will be Systems biology

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

1.2 Poster presentations

1.3 Deadlines

  • Poster Presentations are Wed, 12 November 09:00 – 13:00 in B/T/005.
  • Complete your poster by Friday 7th November at the latest
  • Then upload your completed poster to this Doogle drive folder
  • Posters will be sent to the printer on Monday 10th November.

Detailed poster guidance is here

For inspiration, you can see previous years posters 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 6)

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.