In this course, you will follow in the footsteps of the bioinformaticians investigating the COVID-19 outbreak by assembling the SARS-CoV-2 genome. Whether you’re new to the world of computational biology, or you’re a bioinformatics expert seeking to learn about its applications in the COVID-19 pandemic, or somewhere in between, this course is for you! As you go through this journey, we will introduce and explain genomic concepts and give you many opportunities to practice your skills, and we will provide a series of problems with gradually increasing complexity. This first course will only discuss the assembly of the SARS-CoV-2 genome, but future courses in this series will explore follow-up bioinformatics analyses used in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Hacking COVID-19 — Course 1: Identifying a Deadly Pathogen
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TOP REVIEWS FROM HACKING COVID-19 — COURSE 1: IDENTIFYING A DEADLY PATHOGEN
Enjoyed learning about coronaviruses in depth and learned to use tools used in sequencing a DNA. Thank you!
I hope it soon comes course 2! continue this series!!
Excellent intro to how researchers identify an unknown pathogen.
Very good course that I'm sure I'll use again. Thank you for sharing this information (way of finding data/info) with the rest of the world. Ciao
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