A Nanopore Sequencing Course for Graduate School Curriculum

The high-throughput long-read sequencing has become affordable enough for any molecular biology lab to utilize genome sequencing in their research. Complete genome sequencing and assembly of bacterial genomes is one such application which is powerful yet simple enough for anyone without advanced molecular biology or bioinformatics skills to conduct on his/her own. High-throughput sequencing will eventually become a basic routine tool in molecular biology labs just like polymerase chain reaction and electrophoresis in a near future. To assist the use of such nanopore sequencing technologies, we designed a graduate school course to learn both the experimental and bioinformatic skills of complete bacterial genome sequencing and assembly.