Microbial Strains

Trainer: Jethro Johnson and Avery Robinson

Overview:  This session covers basic concepts of what microbial strains are, the importance of strain-resolutions, resolving stranis from metagenomes.

Learning outcomes:

After this session you should be able to:

  • Identify the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to analysing amplicon sequence data
  • Test an OTU calling approach as an alternative to denoising for the processing of 16S sequence data

Materials: