Quality control and decontamination: Lecture

Trainer: Christian Atallah and Jennifer Lu

This lecture explores the quality control of short read shotgun data – looking at potential sources of contamination and methods to identify low quality sequences and adapters.

Learning outcomes

After this session you should be able to:

  • Visualise general quality statistics
  • Identify widely used methodologies to perform read trimming, removal of sequence artifacts and host decontamination

Materials: