Guia docente 2023_24 Facultade de Bioloxía

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
The organisation of marine genomes	The nuclear and mitochondrial genome. Chromosomes, genes and repetitive components of a genome. Karyotypes and size of marine genomes. Nucleotide variants and structural variantes in a genome. Genomic databases.
Applications of the NGS techniques to the analysis of marine genomes	New generation of high performant sequencing techniques. Modalities of genome sequencing and transcriptome sequencing. Strategies of sequencing for the identification of variants in a genome. Applications of genomic sequencing to the study of marine organisms.
Sequencing of genomes of reference	Strategies for sequencing a genome of reference. Scaffolding and assessment of quality of an assemblage (value of the parameter N50). Construction of genomic maps with data NGS. Annotation of a genome of reference. Calculation of the size of a genome by means of the k-mers abundance. Projects and databases of marine genomes of reference.
Applications of genomics to the study of the marine life	Biodiversity and biogeography. Change induced and adaptative evolution. Marine genomics and aquaculture.