OBJECTIVES

This training will introduce participants to the end-to-end solutions for analyzing metagenomic data, starting from data quality analysis, alignment, community profiling, taxonomic comparison and novel taxa discovery.

Highlights:

Participants will work with a Graphic User Interface based Linux Desktop environment in the Amazon Cloud, that is specially configured to run popular open source metagenomics analysis tools.
Participants will be provided with free access to the fully configured Amazon Machine Image for their personal use after the training.
Participants will also receive a cookbook style manual for all the hands on exercises.
After training support is also provided through exclusive members only forum.
Hands-on training provided by NIH researchers active in the field of metagenomics

Hands-on Skills/Tools Taught:

Processing and Analysis: mothur, FLASh
Analysis: Permanova
Analysis: ANOSIM
Marker analysis: LEfSe
Marker analysis: QIIME
Functional analysis: PICRUSt
Metagenomics analysis: A5miseq
Contig annotation: MEGAN
Functional analysis: bioBakery
Advanced visualizations: phyloseq
Network analysis: Cytoscape