Unit Four

Bioinformatics & Phylogenetics

CONCEPTS
Biology
-Molecular evolution and chronometers
-Structure and significance of 16S rRNA
-Taxonomy and diversity of Bacteria
-Phylogenetic trees as "HYPOTHESES"
-Scientific literature (primary and review)

COMPUTATIONAL SKILLS
-Software to edit and assemble DNA data
-Internet databases and software
-Using and assessing alignment software
-Using phylogenetics and statistics software

SPECIAL EQUIPMENT
-LI-COR Gene Read-IR Management Software
-SDSC Biology Workbench Website, Clustal W,
-PAUP, and Treeview NCBI Website-GenBank,
-Taxonomy, PubMed, BLAST

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