[BBC] [Gtpb] GTPB Course Announcement: WGSMD13 Analysing Whole-Genome Shotgun Metagenomic Data

[Pedro Fernandes]

  Course announcement / reminder   (sorry for the LATE official opening)

  APPLICATIONS ARE *OPEN* FOR:

  AWGSMD13 - Analysing Whole-Genome Shotgun Metagenomic Data

  http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/AWGSMD13/

    Deadline for applications: June 21st 2013
    Notification of acceptance within 72 hours of application.
    Course date: June 27th and June 28th 2013

  Course fee: Euro 160.00

  In this two-day *intermediate-level* course we will cover the basics  
of analysing whole-genome shotgun metagenomics data generated from  
high-throughput sequencing instruments. This would interest those  
interested in taxonomic and functional characterisation of complex  
microbial communities from clinical or environmental samples. Topics  
covered will include design of sequencing experiments, quality control  
of data, de novo assembly and co-assembly, mapping reads to reference  
assemblies, contig clustering, whole-genome and haplotype  
reconstruction methods, taxonomic assignment of contigs, and  
cross-sample comparisons of microbial communities.

Target Audience
The course will suit those already familiar with bioinformatic  
analysis of microbial whole-genome sequences and/or 16S phylogenetic  
profiling who now wish to gain knowledge of new techniques for  
whole-genome metagenomic studies.

Course Pre-requisites
The course will be performed on Linux workstations and will feature a  
large hands-on component with real datasets, therefore knowledge of  
the UNIX command-line is essential, as well as familiarity with  
microbial genomics and ecology and a basic grasp of statistics.


  Thanks

  Pedro

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