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- Introduction
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- Metagenomics bioinformatics – course introduction
- Quality control and host decontamination
- The European Nucleotide Archive
- Tools to assemble short reads
- MGnify services
- MGnifyR
- Binning and MAG generation
- ENA metagenomics standards
- MGnify MAG resources
- Strain resolution
- Tools for comparative metagenomics
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Metagenomics bioinformatics – course introduction
Rob Finn, lead of the Microbiome Informatics team at EMBL-EBI, introduces the course, outlines what will be covered, the practical sessions that are included, and the ultimate learning outcomes.
This talk covers an introduction to metagenomics data, the reasons why experiments are conducted, and the importance of bioinformatics in analysing and understanding the large volumes of data produced.