Introduction

Welcome to the Microbial Genomics Laboratory course for the Spring 2022 semester at The George Washington University! This is a computer-based lab course which will teach you how to use latest and free computational tools to analyze microbial genomes and metagenomes.

Detailed course syllabus for the course can be found here:

https://github.com/SawLabGW/MicrobialGenomicsLab_Spring2022/blob/main/pdfs/syllabus.pdf

About this documentation

This documentation system includes a collection of instructions on computational exercises designed for you throughout the semester. It is impossible to properly display the html pages of these instructions on Blackboard. In order to display the pages correctly, you will need to download the files through our course Github repository, which is located here:

https://github.com/SawLabGW/MicrobialGenomicsLab_Spring2022

However, in order for you to see this repository, you will need to create a Github account and let me know your username and email used to create an account there. Only then can I add you into the list of people allowed to view the pages and files there.

You cannot download the contents of this page just simply through this web address but they need to be “cloned” to your computer through a special command known as git. We will be setting up these necessary commandline tools during the first week of class.