Lecturers:	Christian Rausch, Dr. Regula Rupp , and Prof. Dr. Daniel Huson
Type of course:	Seminar for Master and Diplom students. Credits: 4 LP / 2SWS.
Time and location:	Thursdays, 9:00 (=s.t.)-10:00, C306, Sand 14
First session:	Thursday, 19 April 2007, 9:00 (s.t.)
Office hours/contact:	Dr. Regula Rupp and Christian Rausch
Obligatory registration by email with matriculation number to:	Dr. Regula Rupp
Maximal number of participants:	9

Outline and scope:
Presentation topics will include: current trends in

Genomics, especially Comparative and Functional Genomics and
Metagenomics

Starting literature used for the different presentations will be up-to-date scientific reviews and articles and will be provided to the speakers. Further autonomous literature searches is expected.

The speakers will introduce these relatively new scientific disciplines to the participants and present the relevant results. Special emphasis shall be put on the bioinformatics strategies, algorithms and tools developed and applied.

Schedule:

Title	Speaker	Date	Tutor
Preliminary discussion		19.04.
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1		03.05.
2		10.05.
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3		24.05.
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Metagenome analysis with MEGAN	Prof. Daniel Huson	14.06.
OSLay: optimal syntenic layout of unfinished assemblies	Daniel C. Richter	21.06.
Ultrafast DNA sequencing technologies	Danduan Lei	28.06.	Christian Rausch
Functional genomics and drug discovery	Dieudonné Motsou Wouamba	05.07.	Dr. Regula Rupp
TBA	Dr. Regula Rupp	12.07.
TBA	Christian Rausch	19.07.