Daily Newsletter February 20, 2012

Daily Newsletter February 20, 2012

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Administrative Note: This week, we are looking at Genomics through Metabolomics. Your book does not cover this specifically, and as such, this is a fairly open week. Each day, I will be sending you information on genomics, proteomics and metabolomics. It is up to you to determine your learning objectives.


What do I mean by that? The idea is rather simple, this week, I want to know what you want to learn. As a supplemental 4 point blog, tell the class what you want to learn about. In class, I gave you an idea of the possibilities. Do you want to learn about a technology? or an application? Using specific terms or phrases, what topics do you want to be able to discuss at the end of the week?


At the end of week, I'll give you a list of objectives that I will use on the next exam, but what is critical for you this week is to look at things you find interesting in this topic.


As such, there will be no daily topics. Instead, I'll list out resources that might be interesting to you. Each day for your blog, discuss some topic of genomics, proteomics or metabolomics that you find interesting. Remember, I am fine with you using wikipedia as a jumping-off point for your investigations

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Suggested Resources:

Bacterial Genomics 101:  A quick review of bacterial genomics.

GLAMM:  Interactive Viewer for Metabolic Pathways and Experiments

Microbesonline: a site where you can look at and compare prokaryotic genomes.

Integrated Microbial Genomes:  a site for comparative genomics and annotation of known public genomes. (what does it mean to annotate?)

Genomics Directory:  A site with a number of useful short articles.

Introduction to Proteomics:  A fun interactive review of proteins and proteomics.

Prtoeome Sciences|Proteomics:  A corporate site describing their research tool.  It provides a good overview of proteomics.

Genomic Applications:  Algilent Technologies compiled a list of their genomic research tools based on applications.  A good site to jump-start an investigation into the types of genomic work being done.

HPLC Course:  Provided by the Academy of Chromatography, this is a great way to learn about High Performance Liquid Chromatography.  The tutorial section is geared for differed levels of understanding.  Start at novice and work your way up.

Practical Gas Chromatography:  This site is a good over view of the theory and practice of gas chromatography.

CHROMacademy.com:  This is an elearning hub for HPLC, GC and Mass Spec.  You can sign up for a free account and take online courses in these three techniques.  Because I think it is so amazingly cool and useful, I'll give you a point for every hour credit received on this site.  INSTRUCTIONS:  I take course reports up to March 15, 2012.  You will find an assignment link in uLearn to turn this in.  On the CHROMacademy site, you will find a report tab.  You can download an excel spreadsheet of your work.  Send that excel file to me.