Five hands-on exercises that put you in the seat of a forensic genomicist at the Genome Center.
IRIS
DNA Phenotyping
You're handed an unidentified blood sample. Read the DNA sequencing traces at six positions and work out what the donor looks like — eye, hair and skin colour.
VERDICT
Clinical Variant Interpretation
Act as the clinical bioinformatician: find the variant in a patient's gene, work out its effect, look it up in a ClinVar-style database, and decide what it means.
ORIGIN
Biogeographic Ancestry
An unidentified person's DNA has gaps. Fill them in by imputation, then read the ADMIXTURE and PCA plots to infer which part of the world they're from.
BARCODE
Species Identification
Identify the species behind a mystery sample by DNA barcoding — spot ivory, food fraud, contamination and more. A self-contained simulator, plus a live NCBI BLAST version.
SENTINEL
Metagenomic Surveillance
A mixed environmental sample (wastewater or soil). Classify the whole community, catch a pathogen, resistance gene or virus rising above baseline — or match soil to a place — then call the action.
