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This tutorial is intended as a walkthrough for high school students to help them navigate and fully utilize the CoGe program.
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This tutorial is intended as a walkthrough for high school students to help them navigate and fully utilize the CoGe program while learning about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_genomics comparative genomics].
  
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Lesson 1: Required Background information - explains most of the basic genetic concepts and vocabulary required to use CoGe
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Lesson 2: Visually Comparing Bacteria and Mammal Genomes - learn how to generate a pictoral representation of genomes
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Latest revision as of 16:11, 21 June 2010

Overview

This tutorial is intended as a walkthrough for high school students to help them navigate and fully utilize the CoGe program while learning about comparative genomics.

Lessons

Basics

# Name Description   New Program Used
  1  Required Background Information Explains the basic genetic concepts and vocabulary required to use CoGe None
  2 Visually Comparing Genomes Learn how to generate a pictorial representation of genomes OrganismView & GenomeView
  3 Computationally Comparing Different Genomes Learn how to have computers compare DNA from different organisms
 FastaView, CoGeBlast, GEvo
  4 Synteny: Getting the Big Picture
 Learn about a great way of comparing two complete genomes (syntenic dot plots)
 SynMap


Advanced

# Name Description
 1 Identifying Transposons (TestMN)
 Learn how to identify transposon which have never been discovered before
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