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BME 281JSeminar in Computational Genomics and Biomedicine

2 creditsGraduateStudent Option

Research seminar of the UCSC Computational Genomic Laboratory and Platform Teams. Students receive hands-on instruction in modern computational methods to address research questions. Topics include: genomic and transcriptomic sequence analysis methods, comparative and evolutionary genomics, big-data genomic analysis, biomedical data sharing, and precision medicine. Students attend and participate in monthly lab meetings, monthly all-hands meetings, where students give a quick report on their progress and the next month's goals, and a bi-weekly journal club, where pairs of students present and discuss a paper of their choosing with the lab. Students also participate in hands-on, active computational laboratory-based research. Student evaluation is based on suitable progress toward research goals and graduate program progress.

Prerequisites

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

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When it runs

Winter 2027Open Winter 2027

SectionTypeWhenWhereInstructorSeats
01SeminarAsynchronousStaffOpen 0/7

Fall 2026Open Fall 2026

SectionTypeWhenWhereInstructorSeats
01Seminar
TBA
TBD In PersonB. J. PatenOpen 2/6

Spring 2026Open Spring 2026

SectionTypeWhenWhereInstructorSeats
01Seminar
TBA
TBD In PersonB. J. PatenOpen 6/7

Winter 2026Open Winter 2026

SectionTypeWhenWhereInstructorSeats
01Seminar
TBA
TBD In PersonB. J. PatenClosed 7/7

Fall 2025Open Fall 2025

SectionTypeWhenWhereInstructorSeats
01Seminar
TBA
TBD In PersonB. J. PatenOpen 6/7

Who teaches it

InstructorRatingDifficultyWould take againReviews
Benedict Paten3.9 / 53.3 / 572%54

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