The virtual course SymbNET: From metagenomics to metabolic interactions, run jointly with SymbNET, introduced and discussed state-of-the-art tools for understanding microbial communities (metagenomics) and discovering and analysing species interactions in gut microbial communities, with a particular focus on metabolic interactions. 

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Using these materials

These course materials provide a mixture of pre-recorded lectures, presentations and practicals to help advance your skills in the analysis of cancer genomics 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.

If you would like to provide feedback on this set of course materials, please use the form on the Your feedback page.

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Learning outcomes

• Access and retrieve information from metagenomics, metabolomics, and genome-scale metabolic modelling resources
• Apply metagenomics, metabolomics and data integration analysis pipelines
• Identify and analyse experimental and computational challenges in metagenomics and metabolomics experiments
• Evaluate the utility of metagenomics and metabolomics integration methods for different research objectives
• Design metabolomics and metagenomics experiments and data analysis workflows

Material collection editors

• Robert Finn, EMBL-EBI
• Dayane Rodrigues Araujo, EMBL-EBI
• Michael Zimmerman, EMBL

DOI: 10.6019/TOL.SymbnetMaterials-t.2022.00001.1