The course aims to give detailed insight into the techniques and trends in the fields of genomics, transcriptomics and DNA-assisted proteomics. The focus of the course will thus be on describing, applying and relating state-of-the-art technologies within these fields. This will build up the necessary foundations for further understanding of association studies, forensics, population genetics, diagnostics, medicine and drug development.
The course will describe conventional strategies for whole genome sequencing, high throughput methods for typing of genetic variations, advanced techniques and platforms for massively parallel DNA sequencing and their applications including whole genome sequencing, exome sequencing and RNA sequencing. The course will also describe long-read sequencing technologies. A special focus will be on different methods for single cell profiling.