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Over the past 15 years, exciting changes have occurred in the field of plant biology. Hundreds of plant genomes have been sequenced and sequenced, RNA-seq technology has enabled large-scale gene expression profiling, and the proliferation of “seq-based” methods has enabled the determination of protein and protein-DNA interactions at affordable prices and in large quantities. These data sets allow us to generate hypotheses at the click of a mouse or the touch of a screen.
This specialization is useful for any modern molecular biologist in the field of plants who wants to be exposed to the impressive data available to researchers. During the classes, there is a little introduction to R programming in Bioinformatics Methods II, but most of the tools are online applications.
The Plant Bioinformatics specialization on Coursera introduces basic bioinformatics skills and tools, such as NCBI Genbank, Blast, multiple sequence alignments, and phylogenetics in Bioinformatics Methods I, followed by protein-protein interactions, structural bioinformatics, and RNA-seq analysis in Bioinformatics Methods II. In the Plant Bioinformatics course, we include 33 online tools unique to plants, from genome browsers to RNA data mining, promoter and network analysis, and more. Finally, a capstone course in Plant Bioinformatics uses these tools to hypothesize a biological role for a gene whose function is unknown, culminating in a written lab report.
