Workshop details
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7-Day Workshop on Microbiome Analysis
About the Workshop
Learn how to process, analyze, and interpret microbiome sequencing data, including 16S rRNA gene analysis, metagenomics, diversity metrics, and visualization techniques.
Who Can Join
Students, researchers, and professionals interested in microbial ecology, microbiome research, and bioinformatics.
Prerequisites
Basic molecular biology and microbiology knowledge. Familiarity with command-line tools is helpful but not mandatory.
Day 1: Introduction to Microbiome and Sequencing Technologies
- Overview of microbiomes and their importance
- Types of microbiome sequencing (16S rRNA, shotgun metagenomics)
- Data formats and quality control
- Sequence trimming and filtering (QIIME2, DADA2)
- Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) vs Amplicon Sequence Variants (ASVs)
- Assigning taxonomy using reference databases (Greengenes, SILVA)
- Alpha and beta diversity metrics
- Predicting functional profiles from 16S data (PICRUSt)
- Introduction to shotgun metagenomics analysis
- Assembly of metagenomic reads (MEGAHIT, metaSPAdes)
- Binning approaches to recover genomes (MetaBAT, MaxBin)
- Visualization tools (Phyloseq, MicrobiomeAnalyst)
- Multivariate statistics and hypothesis testing
- Review of recent microbiome research applications
- Participant project presentations
- Discussion on challenges and future directions in microbiome research