Genome Bioinformatics - Computer practicals

Key Points

Block 1 - COOI: Recovering a microbial community
  • You can obtain genome sequences from environmental sequencing

COO-I-1. Sequencing
COO-I-2. Data processing
COO-I-3. Metagenome assembly
COO-I-4. Binning
Block 1 - COOII: Reconstructing evolutionary history
COO-II-1. Genome annotation
COO-II-2. 16S rRNA phylogenetics
COO-II-3. Phylogenomic reconstruction
Block 1 - COOIII: A hot take on evolution
COO-III-1. Growth parameter prediction
COO-III-2. Genome architectural features related to niche adaptation
COO-III-3. Gene content associated with niche adaptation
COO-III-4. Genome composition and optimal growth temperature
Block 2 - COOI: Gene tree intepretation & orthology of an important metabolic enzyme
  • Orthology can be a many-to-many relation

Block 2 - COOI Manually interpreting a more complicated gene tree
  • Gene families are dynamic with recurring duplications and losses

Block 2 -Using NOTUNG for tree reconciliation
  • strict tree reconciliation is very errorprone and other solutions exist with gene trees (that are generally imperfect)

Block 2 - COOI putting it all together on the species tree
  • an annotated gene tree corresponds to events on a species tree

Block 2 - COOII: Making our own orthologs between animals and plotting their conservation
  • Orthologs between human and mouse, or between human and zebrafish, have very different levels of conservation

Block 2 - COOII: Making our own orthologs between animals and plotting their conservation: code answers
Block 2 - COOIII: Horizontal gene transfer in a gene tree of an aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase
  • The acceptor taxon is clustered within the donor taxon

Block 2 - COOIII: Profile searches
  • Profile searches are better able to distinguish homologs from non-homologs than pairwise sequence searches

Block 2 - COOIII: size of a gene family
  • Expanded gene families reflect taxon/species adaptation