Abstract

As a result of the development of novel sequencing technologies, the years between 2008 and 2012 saw a large drop in the cost of sequencing. Per megabase and genome, the cost dropped to 1/100,000th and 1/10,000th of the price, respectively. Prior to this, only transcriptomes of organisms that were of broad interest and utility to scientific research were sequenced; however, these developed in 2010s high-throughput sequencing (also called next-generation sequencing) technologies are both cost- and labor- effective, and the range of organisms studied via these methods is expanding.

About This Material

This is a Hands-on Tutorial from the GTN which is usable either for individual self-study, or as a teaching material in a classroom.

Questions this will address

• Which biological questions are addressed by the tutorial?
• Which bioinformatics techniques are important to know for this type of data?

Learning Objectives

• The learning objectives are the goals of the tutorial
• They will be informed by your audience and will communicate to them and to yourself what you should focus on during the course
• They are single sentences describing what a learner should be able to do once they have completed the tutorial
• You can use Bloom's Taxonomy to write effective learning objectives