huji2020/21

The aim of the course is to introduce you to the most exciting REVOLUTION of the 21st century which is the DATA revolution. As computational biology students, you are in the best position to "make a difference". This class will go through several milestones in understanding human Genetics'. In the end of the class, you will be able to understand many principles:
- molecular evolution
- rules of genetic information flow
- how the information is coded/decoded
- the molecular basis for human diseases

We will cover the following main topics:
1. The ״building blocks" of the "genetic material"
2. What are good genes, dead genes, genomes.
3. The history and the story of the human genome
4. What is so special in humans (the complexity of information)
5. What can you do with the DNA of an individual, family, population
6. How the data look like (and how one can get it, store it, understand it.
7. What is so special in humans (the complexity of information)
8. Genomes in the clinics

and many more....