Hacking COVID-19 — Course 5: Tracing SARS-CoV-2's Evolution

О курсе

In this course, you will follow in the footsteps of the bioinformaticians investigating the COVID-19 outbreak by tracing the evolution of SARS-CoV-2. Whether you’re new to the world of computational biology, or you’re a bioinformatics expert seeking to learn about its applications in the COVID-19 pandemic, or somewhere in between, this course is for you! As you go through this journey, we will introduce and explain genomic concepts and give you many opportunities to practice your skills, and we will provide a series of problems with gradually increasing complexity. This fifth course will discuss the "Italy First" hypothesis of COVID-19 origins, and it will cover bioinformatics methods for rooting and dating a phylogenetic tree inferred from SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences.

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Mikhail Rayko

Senior Researcher

Niema Moshiri

Associate Teaching Professor

Vikram Sirupurapu

Master’s Student

Lily Steiner

Преподаватель курса

Sabeel Mansuri

Software Engineer

Pavel Pevzner

Professor