BIOB 570 - Phage Bioinformatics

3 credits (Hrs: 3 Lec.)

The course will result in annotation of recently sequenced bacteriophage genomes, including submission of the completed annotated genomes to phagesdb.org. Students will learn and participate in the entire process of genome annotation. Students will learn and use web-based and onsite software to annotate a phage genome. Results will be captured and stored in digital notebook. The annotated genome will be prepared for submission to Pitt and GenBank at the end of the semester. A poster comparing phage genomes will be prepared for TechXpo, and/or a Genome Announcement paper will be prepared and submitted.

Prerequisite(s): BIOB 327 or Consent of Instructor. Prerequisite or Corequisite: BIOB 375