Your final grade will be determined by the following combination of assignments:
1) Literature reviews 25%
2) Poster presentation 15%
3) Class participation 10%
4) Mid Term Exam 25%
5) Final Exam OR Term Paper 25%
You must present one discussion paper in classas a Poster, and write reviews of three of the remaining five papers.
Instructions for preparing a good literature review.
Here is a Word file containing Last Year's Midterm Exam
Here is a Word file containing This Year's Final Exam and here are links to the four papers.
1. Genome wide linkage analysis of malaria susceptibility
2. Rhesus macaque genome sequence
3. Copy number variation and gene expression
4. Screen for cancer chemosenzitizers
Here is the Outline of the Term Paper, which is due on Wednesday April 25th in class.
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