Dear all,
We are excited to announce two upcoming online courses designed to advance your expertise in bioinformatics:
1. Introduction to Long-read Bioinformatics
Dates: 28 April – 1 May 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM BST (including a 1-hour lunch break)
Venue: Online
Registration Fee:
£371 – University of Edinburgh staff/students
£390 – Other university or registered charity staff/students
£408 – Industry staff
This course offers a comprehensive introduction to long-read sequencing technologies, focusing on Oxford Nanopore and PacBio platforms. Participants will engage in hands-on tutorials covering data pre-processing, genome assembly, structural variant detection, and base modification analysis.
2. Metabarcoding and Metagenomics
Dates: 6–9 May 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM BST (including a 1-hour lunch break)
Venue: Online
Registration Fee:
£390 – University of Edinburgh staff/students
£410 – Other university or registered charity staff/students
£428 – Industry staff
This course delves into the principles of metabarcoding and metagenomics, providing practical experience with both short and long-read data analysis. Participants will learn to use tools such as Qiime2, NanoClust, MetaPhlAn, HUMAnN, MEGAHIT, CheckM, and GTDB-Tk for taxonomic and functional annotation, as well as metagenome-assembled genome creation.
Registration Details:
Each course is limited to 20 participants. To secure your place, please register at the links below:
Introduction to Long-read Bioinformatics: Register Here
Metabarcoding and Metagenomics: Register Here
Upon registration, our finance team will contact you to arrange payment. Your place will be confirmed once payment is received.
For further information, please contact our training team at egtrain@ed.ac.uk.
Best regards,