MAG generation: practical
Trainer: Ekaterina Sakharova and Tatiana Gurbich
Overview: This practical session addresses the assembly of short-read metagenomic data into contigs, performs basic analysis of assembled data, bin an assembly using MetaBAT2, assesses the quality of the bins with checkM, and then visualises a placement of the bins/genomes within a reference tree.
Learning outcomes:
After this session you should be able to:
- Generate metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from assemblies
- Implement basic methods to perform assessment of quality and taxonomic assignment
Materials: