Unit 3: The Transcriptome, Disease Genes & Functional Genomics

Featured Software: MedMiner

Recommended Reading

Gibas and Jambeck Chapter 2 pp. 22-37
Gibas and Jambeck Chapter 7 pp. 169-172
Gibas and Jambeck Chapter 11 pp. 310-317
Overview article on functional genomics.
About microarray analysis.

Exercises

Mapping disease genes & Analyzing microarray data
Useful tools- primers, plasmids, & probes [Optional]

Discussion

Ethical Issues in Bioinformatics: Patenting DNA.

Unit Problem

Applications in functional genomics.

Links:   Science Functional Genomics   |   UCSC Genome Annotation