Links to the OMA Academy modules

Aim

Become more familiar with orthology, phylogenies, and comparative genomics.

Learning outcomes

• Define orthology, paralogy and their subtypes
• Retrieve orthology information from the OMA database
• Map sequences quickly to their Hierarchical Orthologous Groups
• Infer orthologs on custom genomes using the FastOMA pipeline
• Construct and interpret phylogenetic species trees using OMA data

Exercises

The exercises were implemented as modules in the OMA Academy. OMA Academy is an e-learning website with a suite of self-learning modules centered around comparative genomics and phylogenetics. The modules are specifically designed to help computational biologists use OMA, a method and database for inferring orthologs. Each module is stand-alone, with a basic introduction and a series of exercises with hints and answers.

Here are the links to directly access the different modules:

• Module 1
• Module 2
• Module 3
• Module 4