Bioinformatics: CpG Islands
Author(s): Edward Himelblau
California Polytechnic State University
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Summary:
This is an introductory bioinformatics exercise intended for use in a genetics course.
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Description
This is a small-scale, introductory activity for a genetics course (50 students) that students could complete independently outside of class. Students chose a eukaryotic organism and download all 5kb upstream sequences from the UCSC database. Students use free on-line CpG island search tools to analyze a set of sequences. Student have to use their ingenuity to design a figure that displays the frequency and location of CpG islands...some of these figures are used later in lecture as illustrations when epigenetics is covered.
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Researchers should cite this work as follows:
- Himelblau, E. (2017). Bioinformatics: CpG Islands. NIBLSE Incubator: CpG Islands, QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/Q4QD5W