Chapter 13: Completed Genomes and
the Tree of Life
This page offers the web documents and resources related to Chapter 13.
| Web documents | Description |
| Web Document 13-1 | Five perspectives on genomics: organizing principles for thinking about the field of genomics (and for preparing a project for a course on genomics in which each student picks a genome to study) |
| Web Document 13-2 | Description of a project to study a gene in detail from a genomics perspective |
Chapter 13 Resources |
| Powerpoint of the two introductory lectures (October 26, 2009 here as powerpoint or pdf; Wednesday October 28 as powerpoint or pdf) |
| Course site for Genomics (260.605, 2nd quarter 2009-2010). This companion site includes information such as the class schedule and assignments. |
| Reading assignment: paper by Webb Miller and colleagues (2004). Optional: 1969 paper on the five-kingdom system of the tree of life. |
| Computer lab (click for word document)(Friday, October 30, 2009 in W3017) |
| Key URLs: NCBI; European Bioinformatics Institute Integr8; UCSC Genome Browser; Ribosomal Database Project at Michigan State University; Pfam (Protein Family Database); MEGA phylogeny software. |
This page updated January 29, 2010