This PowerPoint presentation provides a primer on the recommended annotation strategy for the Pathways Project. The presentation provides an overview of the goals of the Pathways Project annotations, an introduction to RNA-Seq, web databases, and a discussion on the phases of the splice donor and acceptor sites.
This resource is a slide deck offering an expanded introduction to synteny. Instructors are encouraged to use and modify to fit the needs of specific courses and students.
This series of modules introduces students to the statistical platform R using an integrated development environment of RStudio. Both softwares can be downloaded for free. Once downloaded and installed according to Module 0, students should watch the accompanying video for an introduction to the new environment. Module 1 presents an exercise where students work with genomic sequence alignment data to learn how to construct R commands while performing basic summary statistics and making basic plots.
This was created in response to a member mentioning their students really struggled with the genomic neighborhood and the member didn’t realize until they were already too far into the annotation to correct their misconceptions. This is meant to be a quick in-class and/or homework assignment.
Students can apply what they learned in the Pathways Project: Annotation Walkthrough to construct a gene model for Rheb in D. pseudoobscura by completing the Pathways Project: Annotation Form. An answer key (generic username and password required) is provided to assist instructors in checking the accuracy of the annotation and includes potential areas of confusion throughout.
The Annotation Form Exemplar is provided as an example of a completed Annotation Form ready for submission to the GEP’s Pathways Project. The optional questions were omitted from the exemplar.
This “Annotation Form” merged the “Annotation Report” and “Annotation Notebook” into a single document and the latter two items were archived.
The “Annotation Form” kept many of the Checks for Understanding type questions that were previously in the “Annotation Notebook.” However, given that not all faculty want their students to answer those questions, we marked any question that is NOT required for submission to the GEP as “OPTIONAL.” Currently the optional questions are organized as letters rather than numbers, which we hope will make it easy to quickly select and delete the OPTIONAL questions that faculty don’t wish to include. Again, all numbered questions are required for submission to the GEP for reconciliation.
Items that were previously asked for in the “Project Details” table of the “Annotation Report” are now available on the Genome Browser Gateway page for each species. Therefore, the “Project Details Table” instructions document is no longer needed.
