Microbes, metagenomes and marine mammals: enabling the next generation of scientist to enter the genomic era.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The revolution in DNA sequencing technology continues unabated, and is affecting all aspects of the biological and medical sciences. The training and recruitment of the next generation of researchers who are able to use and exploit the new technology is severely lacking and potentially negatively influencing research and development efforts to advance genome biology. Here we present a cross-disciplinary course that provides undergraduate students with practical experience in running a next generation sequencing instrument through to the analysis and annotation of the generated DNA sequences.

Results

Many labs across world are installing next generation sequencing technology and we show that the undergraduate students produce quality sequence data and were excited

SUBMITTER: Edwards RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3766688 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature