Course content

To see details about the live ‘Genome bioinformatics: from short- to long-read sequencing’ 2025 course and the original programme, you can refer to the course page and programme. Materials from previous editions of the course are available upon request.

The contents table below outlines the sessions included in the course, the format of the materials (slides/videos/practicals), and each session’s trainer. Either proceed through the materials using the arrows at the end of each page or pick your topic of interest from the table below to skip straight to it.

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Programme

Format	Subject	Trainer(s)
	Introduction to Unix and BASH	Kayesha Coley
	NGS, raw read pre-processing, quality control, and read mapping
	Overview of NGS technology	Pille Hallast
	Quality control	Charles Solomon and Chiara Batini
	Read mapping	Charles Solomon and Chiara Batini
	Alignment and Genome assembly
	SAM/BAM file formats, BAM refinement, QC & visualisation	Chiara Batini
	Fundamentals of Genome Assembly	Victor Flores Lopez
	Variant calling
	Introduction to Variant calling: SNPs and Indels	Chiara Batini
	Variant calling and filtering through short-read sequencing (SNPs and indels) – practical	Chiara Batini
	Variant calling: SVs & CNVs	Maxime Tarabachi
	Variant annotation and effect prediction
	Annotation and Variation with Ensembl	Jose Maria Gonzalez Perez-Silva and Jamie Allen
	Ensembl ‘Variant Effect Predictor’ tutorial	Jamie Allen
	Long-read sequencing	Victor Flores Lopez
	Pangenomics session	Erik Garrison
	Comparison between short- and long-read sequencing, Pipeline building, and Responsible data management
	Comparison between short- and long-read sequencing	Maxime Tarabachi
	Building a pipeline	Victor Flores Lopez
	Best Practice and FAIR Data Management	Daria Sokolova