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A genomics track: sequencing technologies and their error modes, FASTQ to alignment to variants, annotation, population context, and the limits of interpretation.
A genomics track: sequencing technologies and their error modes, FASTQ to alignment to variants, annotation, population context, and the limits of interpretation.
This track runs on milestones you submit, not videos you watch. Each milestone names what you hand in, and the review is what turns it into a verified step on your record. Where an existing course or deep-dive guide already covers part of the track, it is linked from this page.
Tools the work uses
FastQC, fastp, BWA or Bowtie2Quality control and alignment: the steps that decide everything downstream.
Samtools, GATK or bcftoolsSorting, calling and filtering variants with the standard tools.
Ensembl VEP or SnpEffAnnotation, and the reason a variant matters.
Nextflow or SnakemakeA pipeline that reruns identically on someone else’s machine.
Where this track leads
- Genomics analyst
- Clinical bioinformatician, with further study
- Research scientist
- Diagnostics laboratory scientist
Where this track stands today
Nothing here is padded out to look finished. This is the honest state of the parts that are still being built.
Milestone briefs (14 weeks)Being written
Public dataset walkthroughPlanned — 1000 Genomes and GIAB subsets
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