for PhD students of the Research training group IBR, EcoMol and the Integrated Research Training Group of the CRC Roseobacter and PhD program 'Environmental Sciences and Biodiversity'

Course content:
Next Generation Sequencing technologies have recently revolutionised biological sciences. This workshop will provide students with an introduction to bioinformatic approaches to handle and analyse NGS datasets. The following topics will be treated:

Day 1: UNIX/Linux and Perl for Bioinformatics
Day 2: Introduction to NGS: Platforms, File formats, Quality control and preprocessing, alignments
Day 3: NGS toolkits, evaluation of alignments, mapping statistics, alignment visualisation
The course consists of lectures and accompanying practical exercises.