Venue: BRICS Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology, 56 Rebenring, Room 045 Ground Floor

City: Braunschweig

Country: Germany

Postcode: 38106

Learning objectives:

• Linux Basics: A short step-by-step guide to navigating the command-line interface, ensuring all participants are ready for the computational aspects of the workshop.
• Introduction to Metagenomics: Overview of metagenomics workflows, including pre-processing, quality checks, and error handling for sequencing data.

• Basics of Nextflow: Learn the fundamentals of Nextflow scripting to create scalable and reproducible bioinformatics workflows.

• nf-core Pipelines: An introduction to the nf-core community and how its workflows can simplify metagenomic data analysis.

• Taxonomy Profiling: Explore methods and tools for identifying and classifying microbial species in sequencing datasets.

• Hands-On Practical: Taxonomy Profiling with Nextflow: Apply what you’ve learned in a guided session on running taxonomy profiling workflows using nf-core.

• Assembly and Binning: Learn how to reconstruct genomes from metagenomic data using assembly and binning techniques.

• Classification and Annotation: Discover methods to classify and annotate metagenomic reads, contigs, and bins for functional analysis.

• Practical Session: MG-tk and MAG Pipelines: Work on real data using MG-tk and MAG tools, focusing on best practices for metagenome data pre-processing, assembly, and binning.

• Cloud Workflow Management (CLOWM): Introduction to managing metagenomic workflows in a cloud environment, enabling efficient data processing.

• Running Workflows in CLOWM: Hands-on practice executing workflows on the de.NBI cloud.

• Open Discussion: Wrap up the course with a Q&A and feedback session to address specific challenges and share ideas for future directions.

Organizer: de.NBI, NFDI4Microbiota, HZI, FZJ

Host institutions: HZI

Eligibility:

• Registration of interest

Event types:

• Workshops and courses

Cost basis: Free to all