Free Cloud-SPAN course on
METAGENOMICS
11-21 April 2023
This free course comprises online lectures, regular help drop-in sessions and support via slack.
Following completion you will be able to:
- navigate a file system using the command line
- log in to and exit your AWS instance (the cloud)
- use common commands such as ls, pwd and cd, on the command line
- perform quality control on reads and assemble them into a metagenome
- perform polishing to improve an assembly
- use binning to separate the metagenome into different species or MAGs (Metagenome-Assembled Genomes)
- use Kraken 2 to assign taxonomy to reads and contigs and phyloseq in R to analyse taxonomic diversity
Diversity and Hardship Scholarships are offered to enable members of underrepresented groups and those with financial difficulties to participate in our training courses – deadline 13 March 2023.
For details of the schedule and the registration form please visit here website
If you have any questions contact cloud-span-project@york.ac.uk
Training courses:
Statistically useful experimental design 14 April 2023 (University of York)
Metagenomics 11-21 April 2023 (online)
Prenomics, Genomics & Create your own AWS Instance (Self-study online)
Deadline: 13/03/2023
