00. Genomics Basics

The basics

  • What is Genomics? the science of Genomes and its flourishing over the last decades
  • Genomics Data. Not just sequences.
    • Which types of genomic data are there?
    • What may they refer to?
      • Sequence
      • Annotations
      • Positional data
      • Continuous data
  • Visualizing Genomic data. Genome Browsers.
    • UCSC
    • ENSEMBL
    • IGV (your own customizable browser)
  • Retrieving Genomic data
    • Genomic data formats
      • Fasta, Fastq (sequences)
      • BED, GFF (annotation, positional)
      • WIG (annotation, continuous)
      • Binary, BigBed, BigWig etc
    • Genomic data Repositories
      • The UCSC repository
      • The Ensembl/Biomart DAS