Welcome to the course website for CMM262: Quantitative Methods in Genetics and Genomics!
This interactive course is taught by a variety of experts in the field of genetics and genomics! These experts will go over the conceptual background behind different sequencing technologies and/or analytical techniques, as well as provide an interactive introduction to performing bioinformatics analyses in the form of Jupyter Notebooks.
Check out the course syllabus for more details.
| Week | Starting Date | Topic | Lecturer(s) | Links | Homework Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 4, 2022 | Module 1: Programming Basics in Python, UNIX, and R | TAs | Module 1 | None |
| 2 | January 11, 2022 | Module 2: Introduction to Statistics | Graham McVicker | Module 2 | None |
| 3 | January 18, 2022 | Module 3: Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) | Graham McVicker | Module 3 | Homework 1 (due 1/27) |
| 4 | January 25, 2022 | Module 4: RNA-Sequencing (RNA-seq) | Priya Pantham | Module 4 | None |
| 5 | February 1, 2022 | Module 5: Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing (scRNA-seq) | Robert Morey | Module 5 | Homework 2 (due 2/10) |
| 6 | February 8, 2022 | Module 6: Spatial Transcriptomics | Noorsher Ahmed Clarence Mah |
Module 6 | None |
| 6.5 | February 10, 2022 | Content Review Day | TAs | Midterm Review | Midterm (due 2/17) |
| 7 | February 15, 2022 | Module 7: Network Biology | Hannah Carter | Module 7 | Homework 3 (due 3/3) |
| 8 | February 22, 2022 | Module 8: Variant Calling | Kyle Gaulton | Module 8 | None |
| 9 | March 1, 2022 | Module 9: Chromatin and ChIP-Sequencing (ChIP-seq) | Alon Goren | Module 9 | None |
| 10 | March 8, 2022 | Module 10: Population Genetics | Nicholas Schork | Module 10 | None |
| 11 | March 15, 2021 | Finals Week | - | TBA | Take-Home Final |