This block course for bioinformaticians and biologists discusses the evolutionary forces (genetic drift, migration, selection, mutation, recombination) that shape the evolution of DNA sequences and genomes. Students will learn population genetical, statistical, mathematical and computational concepts and methods that can be used for analyzing patterns of genetic variation in natural populations and the evolutionary processes affecting them, including for example the estimation of population structure and tests of natural selection.
The course will consist of a series of lectures and computational / numerical exercises (in R); in the exercises, the students will learn how to analyze patterns of genetic variation in real-world datasets.
At the end of the course, on the last course day, there will be a written (45 min) test.
- Teacher: Rimjhim Roy Choudhury
- Teacher: Thomas Flatt
- Teacher: Margot Pâris
- Teacher: Christian Parisod