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<https://genomics.ed.ac.uk/event/introduction-to-long-read-bioinformatics-3/>​ * Metabarcoding and Metagenomics: Register Here<https://genomics.ed.ac.uk/event/metabarcoding-and-metagenomics/>​ 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, Dr Kathryn Campbell Genomics and Bioinformatics Training Coordinator - Edinburgh Genomics School of Biological Sciences University of Edinburgh Email: kcampb2@ed.ac.uk [C0537FE1-6FA3-49DE-BC61-6312CF32C502.png] ======================================================== Edinburgh Genomics' Privacy Notice can be viewed at: http://genomics.ed.ac.uk/about-us/privacy-notice This email and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the use of the recipient(s) to whom they are addressed. If you have received it in error, please destroy all copies and inform the sender. ======================================================== The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.