Course "16 S/ITS Metabarcoding of microbial communities"
When: 1-5 April 2019
Where: Free University of Berlin (Germany)
Instructors:
Dr. Antti Karkman (University of Helsinky, Finland)
Dr. Anna Sandionigi (University of Milan Bicocca, Italy)
Dr. Bruno Fosso (Institute of Biomembrane,Bioenergetics and Molecular Biotechnologies, CNR, Italy)
This course will provide a thorough introduction to the application of metabarcoding techniques in microbial ecology. The topics covered by the course range from bioinformatic processing of next-generation sequencing data to the most important approaches in multivariate statistics. Using a combination of theoretical lectures and hands-on exercises, the participants will learn the most important computational steps of a metabarcoding study from the processing of raw sequencing reads down to the final statistical evaluations. All the hands-on exercises will be carried out using QIIME2 platform (https://qiime2.org/).
Learning Outcomes:
- Understanding the concept, potential and limitation of microbial metabarcoding techniques.
- Learning how to process raw sequencing reads to obtain meaningful information.
- Obtaining experience on how to statistically evaluate and visualize your data.
- Being able to make informed decisions on best practices for your own data.
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