During this three-day 1 ECTS SciLifeLab metagenomics course, the participants will be brought up to date with the current state-of-the-art in the rapidly emerging field of environmental genomics, including metagenomics and single cell genomics. The course will focus on computational methods for assembly and functional annotation of environmental genomics data.

Topics covered will include:

• Quality assessment of sequence reads
• Assembly of metagenomic and single cell genomic datasets
• Gene calling and functional annotation – different binning strategies for metagenomics contigs
• Comparative metagenomics

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Course fee 1300 SEK

Application period 1 August – 7 October, 2017

NDPIA members who are admitted to the course (after applying via SciLifeLab as indicated above) can apply for co-funding of travel/accommodation for participating in the course by filling out the form below. Co-funding is not considered for course fees.

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