Miami University has joined the National Genomics Research Initiative (NGRI) offered by HHMI Science Education Alliance (SEA) in their Phage Genomics course. The students go directly into the lab, participating in an authentic research experience. In a full-year academic course they: isolate and characterize bacterial viruses from their local soil prepare the viral DNA [...]
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Crowdsourcing genomics
By Iddo on May 19th, 2011
Bioinformatics, Metagenomics, Microbiology, stuctural biology
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Photosynthesis, phages and structures: there’s treasure everywhere!
By Iddo on November 24th, 2009
Here’s a really cool work, published this September in Nature.. Why did I choose this work? Well, it’s a major discovery, and it’s all done using bioinformatics, and fairly simple bioinformatics at that. The power of metagenomics and bioinfromatics: in a mass of data you just have to know what you are looking for, and [...]
