1. Introduction -- 2. DNA sequence asssembly and annotation of genes -- 3. Databases and protein structures -- 4. Pairwise alignment, multiple alignment and BLAST -- 5. Primer design -- 6. Introduction to phylogenetic analysis of molecular sequence data -- 7. Sequence based classification and identification -- 8. 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing -- 9. Full shot-gun DNA metagenomics -- 10. Transcriptomics -- 11. Sequenced based typing and prediction of function.