Further learning

On-demand learning, including online tutorials and recorded webinars covering many topics in bioinformatics and EMBL-EBI resources.

Live training, including other virtual courses and live webinars.

The following links might be of specific interest for you:

MGnify MAG catalogues

The MGnify website: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metagenomics/
The “Browsable API” for MGnify: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metagenomics/api/v1/
Helpdesk for MGnify: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/support/metagenomics
Git repository with the practical exercises we did: https://github.com/EBI-Metagenomics/mgnify-ebi-2021/tree/sybmnet-2022
The Sourmash documentation, for the “Search by MAG” feature: https://sourmash.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
The paper presenting the first MGnify MAG Catalogue: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-020-0603-3
For those new to the Python data analysis ecosystem, the interactive “Python Data Science Handbook” uses Jupyter Notebooks to introduce Pythonic data science; chapters 3 and 4 cover Pandas and Matplotlib: https://colab.research.google.com/github/jakevdp/PythonDataScienceHandbook/blob/master/notebooks/Index.ipynb
There is also an “ultraquick” tutorial for Pandas using a Jupyter Notebook by Google: https://colab.research.google.com/github/google/eng-edu/blob/master/ml/cc/exercises/pandas_dataframe_ultraquick_tutorial.ipynb