Sequencing and characterizing the genome of Estrella lausannensis as an undergraduate project: training students and biological insights.

ABSTRACT: With the widespread availability of high-throughput sequencing technologies, sequencing projects have become pervasive in the molecular life sciences. The huge bulk of data generated daily must be analyzed further by biologists with skills in bioinformatics and by "embedded bioinformaticians," i.e., bioinformaticians integrated in wet lab research groups. Thus, students interested in molecular life sciences must be trained in the main steps of genomics: sequencing, assembly, annotation and analysis. To reach that goal, a practical course has been set up for master students at the University of Lausanne: the "Sequence a genome" class. At the beginning of the academic year, a few bacterial species whose genome is unknown are provided to the students, who sequence and assemble the genome(s) a

SUBMITTER: Bertelli C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4333871 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature