Bioinformatics and Genes

ou will write a written report of the practicals conducted in weeks 5-6 “Bioinformatics and Genomics: Genome Assembly and Interpreting Genomic Data”. Note that this includes the “Virus Detective” exercise (Week 5, Part 4 – Virus Discovery; Week 6, Part 1 – Identification and analysis of protein coding genes & Part 2 – Identification of restriction sites) but does not include the donkey coat colour case study. Your aim is to write up the practical in the form of a brief scientific journal article, containing the sections: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion and Supplementary Information. For more information on the structure of a scientific journal article, see the “Research Manuscript Template” from the journal PeerJ, available at: https://peerj.com/about/author-instructions/ Note that you do not need to include an abstract or acknowledgements section. Your conclusions should be contained within the Discussion.