Microbial bioinformatics
Public biology databases have expanded rapidly throughout recent years, having significant impact on the progress of modern biology. Bioinformatics is an essential tool when managing those data and have potential in being applied to various biology topics. Through the project, students will become able to understand and utilize practical data science skills, producing reproduceable and reliable research results using open-source tools. The project will help students acquire basic knowledge and skill of bioinformatics throughout the use of tools such as Unix Shell and RStudio.
Throughout the project, students will apply the acquired bioinformatics skills to their individual research projects. Topics cover a variety of topics relating to urban microbiome, microbiology of the built environment (MoBE), antimicrobial resistance (AMR), biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs), mobile genetic elements (MGEs) such as plasmids and viruses, zoonotic pathogens responsible for the emergence of infectious diseases in both humans and animals, one health, and cancer. The projects aim to utilize bioinformatics to make discoveries or solve issues related to each student’s research question.