Modern plant and animal applied genomics driven by genotype and sequence data – John Hickey, Gregor Gorjanc, Martin Johnson

July 17, 2018 @ 8:00 am - July 19, 2018 @ 5:00 pm

From the University of Edinburgh Roslin Institute, eminent experts in the field of genetics, John Hickey, Gregor Gorjanc and Martin Johnsson, held a workshop/course called Modern plant and animal applied genomics driven by genotype and sequence data, which consisted of the following chapters:

John Hickey
1. General Overview
2. Genomic data
3. Heuristics Phasing Imputation
4. Hidden Markov chain Monte Carlo Ice Cream fast PHASE
5. Sequence And GS20

Gregor Gorjanc
1. Inheritance, Genetics, Genomes, Phenotypes
2. Alpha SimR Introduction
3. Dominance Model
4. Compare and Contrast Breeding Programs
5. Optimal Contribution Selection

Martin Johnson
1. Genome variant annotation
2. Theory of deleterious load
3. Deleterious variant prediction
4. Practicals