Course details
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Certificate Course in Microbiome & Metagenome Analysis
Level
Intermediate
Intermediate
Duration
1 Month | 8 hours per week
1 Month | 8 hours per week
Flexible Schedule
Learn from anywhere.
Learn from anywhere.
Modules
4
4
Capsote Project
Real-world project with publication.
Real-world project with publication.
Course Modules
Enroll Now- Microbial ecology and microbiome concepts
- Types of metagenomic sequencing (16S rRNA, shotgun)
- Overview of study design and sample preparation
- Public databases and resources (MG-RAST, Qiita)
- Raw data formats (FASTQ) and quality assessment (FastQC)
- Trimming and filtering low-quality reads (Trimmomatic, Cutadapt)
- Removal of contaminants and host sequences
- Hands-on: Quality control of sample datasets
- 16S rRNA sequence clustering and OTU picking (QIIME2, DADA2)
- Taxonomic assignment using databases (SILVA, Greengenes)
- Alpha and beta diversity metrics and visualization
- Hands-on: Taxonomic profiling and diversity analysis
- Metagenome assembly basics (MEGAHIT, SPAdes)
- Gene prediction and annotation (PROKKA, MetaGeneMark)
- Functional profiling using KEGG, COG, and eggNOG
- Visualization with tools like STAMP and Cytoscape
- Capstone mini-project: Microbiome data analysis report
Course Overview
This course introduces the fundamentals of microbiome research and metagenomic data analysis. Participants will learn sample processing concepts, sequencing data handling, taxonomic classification, diversity analysis, and functional profiling using popular bioinformatics tools.
This course introduces the fundamentals of microbiome research and metagenomic data analysis. Participants will learn sample processing concepts, sequencing data handling, taxonomic classification, diversity analysis, and functional profiling using popular bioinformatics tools.
What You'll Learn
Basics of microbial communities and microbiomes
Overview of metagenomic sequencing techniques
Quality control and preprocessing of metagenomic reads
Taxonomic classification and diversity metrics
Functional annotation and pathway analysis in microbiomes
Who Can Register
Life science students, researchers, microbiologists, and bioinformatics beginners interested in microbial ecology and environmental genomics.
Life science students, researchers, microbiologists, and bioinformatics beginners interested in microbial ecology and environmental genomics.
Prerequisites
Basic biology and genetics
Familiarity with Linux command line is helpful but not mandatory