BME23L: Foundations of Design and Experimentation in Molecular Biology, Part II

Laboratory-based course extending the wet lab skills developed in the first two quarters of the BME 2x series with bioinformatics skills that form the foundation of biomolecular engineering. Focuses on sequencing of low-diversity environmental samples, including: field sampling, DNA extraction from those samples, library preparation, hands-on sequencing using a Nanopore device, base-calling of the raw data, assembly of contigs, quality assessment, contig assignment to species/bins, automated annotation of a single assemblage from collection genome publication.

Prerequisites: BME 22L. Enrollment is restricted to bioengineering, bioinformatics, and biomolecular engineering and bioinformatics majors and proposed majors.

2 credits

Year	Fall	Winter	Spring	Summer
2024-25		Section 01 David L Bernick (dbernick)	Section 01 David L Bernick (dbernick)
2023-24	Section 01 Dianne G Hendricks (dghendri)		Section 01 Dianne G Hendricks (dghendri)
2022-23			Section 01 Dianne G Hendricks (dghendri) Section 02 Dianne G Hendricks (dghendri) Section 03 Dianne G Hendricks (dghendri)
2021-22			Section 01 Dianne G Hendricks (dghendri)

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