Tutorial for High School Students

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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 Learn how to identify transposon which have never been discovered before
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