Matthew Dorman

I am a graduate student at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, where I research the virulence and the molecular genetics of bacterial pathogens as part of the Infection Genomics programme.

Sort options

Bacterial Genomes: Comparative Genomics using Artemis Comparison Tool (ACT) (FutureLearn)

Learn to use comparative genomics to improve your knowledge of microbial genomes. Gain experience in using the Artemis Comparison Tool for comparative genomics. Disease outbreaks are still a big problem in our modern world. Comparison between two or more bacterial genomes can help improve understanding of the causes of [...]

Bacterial Genomes II: Accessing and Analysing Microbial Genome Data Using Artemis (FutureLearn)

Learn more about how genomic data and computational tools can help us understand and track disease-causing bacteria. Use computational tools to investigate microbial genomes. Applying increasingly powerful computation to genomics contributes to important medical breakthroughs. On this course, you will discover the basic principles of microbial bioinformatics analysis, and [...]

Bacterial Genomes: From DNA to Protein Function Using Bioinformatics (FutureLearn)

Use bioinformatics to explore DNA sequences and protein functions, to find the determinants of virulence in microbes. Join us in our quest to discover what makes microbes dangerous. Use bioinformatics to probe genomes, to explore and represent DNA and protein sequences. Then, use databases to find protein sequences’ conserved [...]