WGSMD13

A Analysing Whole-Genome Shotgun Metagenomic Data


Course Timetable (provisional)
WGSMD13 Analysing Whole-Genome Shotgun Metagenomic Dat
Thu, June 27th
Day #1
09:30 - 11:00 1. Metagenomics concepts and experimental design
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 2. Quality control of sequencing reads, assessment of contamination
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 3. De novo assembly of metagenomic data
16:00 - 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 - 18:00 4. Read alignment and contig clustering methods
Fri, June 28th
Day #2
09:30 - 11:00 5. Taxonomic assignment of contigs, comparing similarity methods, marker-gene database, phylogenetic methods and composition-based methods
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 6. Taxonomic assignment of contigs (continued)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 7. Comparison of community structure and functional assignment of contigs
16:00 - 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 - 18:00 8. Wrap-up session. Discussion and conclusion.
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Last updated:   June 12th 2011