Instructor Guide
Suggested Activity Context
Course Audience
- Undergraduate biology majors
- Graduate students with less exposure to bioinformatics
- Professionals interested in building bioinformatics skills
Course Prerequisites
- Layman understanding of genetics (understanding of DNA, genes, trait inheritance)
- Some previous exposure to the central dogma of molecular biology
Class Type
- Lab
- Computer-based
Class Size
- 1-50
Lesson Duration
- 20-30 minute pre-lab lecture
- 3 hour lab for undergraduate students
- 1 hour lab for graduate students
- Additional short lecture modules
Assessment Type
- Short answer questions at each lab stage
Lesson Plan
| Activity | Undergraduate course | Graduate course | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Logging into AnVIL, Provisioning Galaxy workspace | 10-15 minutes | 10-15 minutes | Provisioning will take 8-10 minutes of waiting |
| Overview lecture | 15 minutes | 15 minutes | |
| Exercise 1: Uploading data | 10 minutes | 5 minutes | |
| Exercise 2: Examining FASTQ files | 30 minutes | 10 minutes | |
| Exercise 3: Aligning data | 30 minutes | 10 minutes | |
| Exercise 4: Viewing alignments | 30 minutes | 10 minutes | |
| Wrap-up | 5-10 minutes | 5 minutes |
Notes for Instructors
Depending on your needs, you might decide to run this Galaxy activity on a different cloud provider, such as the original usegalaxy.org. More information about Galaxy is available at training.galaxyproject.org.
We estimate a cost of roughly $2.00 per student to run this activity on AnVIL.
This activitiy is now also part of the Galaxy Training Network (GTN)!
Check it out here:
https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/sequence-analysis/tutorials/sars-with-galaxy-on-anvil/tutorial.html
Getting Credit for Professional Development
We are happy to provide a letter to your supervisor, department head, or dean to indicate you’ve worked through this content and intend to use it in your class. You can request a letter here.