Scientific Reading in 2021 Fall Semester

Scientific Reading and Presentation is to read, understand, and present scientific publications. It teaches graduate students a fundamental skill in scientific literature navigation and review, which serves as the basis in their future research life.

Contents

1. Introduction
   • A introduction of this course
   • What is scientific reading?
   • How to present a research project/scientific paper?
2. The history of sequencing
   • Sanger sequencing
   • Sequencing by synthesis
   • Single-molecule sequencing
3. Human genome
   • HGP
   • Hapmap
   • T2T genome
4. Evolutionary genomics
   • Ancient genome
   • Ancient population
   • Adaptation
5. Population genomics
   • 1000 Genome
   • GWAS
   • Demography
6. Functional genomics
   • ENCODE
   • Epigenome
   • Proteome
7. Advances in omics studies
   • Single-cell transcriptome
   • Metagenomics
   • Cancer genomics
8. Final exam
   • Personal presentation

Appendix

1. Course Q & A, https://docs.qq.com/sheet/DRnZ1ZUpaWklZREdG?tab=zcloyz
2. Peer grading, https://docs.qq.com/sheet/DRlVqR29OQkREYU1K