The Genome-resolved metagenomics bioinformatics course, which  focused on the analysis of data from metagenomics studies, ran in November 2022. Here, we have made the course materials available for you to access any time.

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Using these materials

These course materials provide a mixture of recorded lectures, presentations and practicals to help advance your knowledge and skills in the analysis of biological data. You may select your topic of interest from the Course content page to view the relevant materials or work your way through all the course materials.

To find out more about the trainers who created these materials, follow the links from the Course content page or go directly to the Trainer biographies page. You can also find the software requirements for the practicals in the Technical help sheet.

In the Further learning section you may explore the details about the EMBL-EBI’s free access online tutorials and webinars on a variety of life sciences topics.

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Course learning outcomes

After this course you should be able to:

• Conduct appropriate quality control and decontamination of metagenomic data and run simple assembly pipelines on short-read data
• Utilise public datasets and resources to identify relevant data for analysis
• Apply relevant tools in the analysis of metagenomic data
• Submit metagenomics data to online repositories for sharing and future analysis
• Apply knowledge in the areas of strain resolution and additional functional analysis

Material collection editors

• Patricia Carvajal Lopez, EMBL-EBI
• Lorna Richardson, EMBL-EBI

DOI: 10.6019/TOL.GenResMetagenomics22-t.2022.00001.1