Date
March 31st – April 2nd 2014
Location
Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Address: Laan van Scheut 2, 6525 EM Nijmegen
Room: G1.12 (1st floor)
Support

This course is made possible by the generous support of ALLBIO.
Course coordinators
Sacha van Hijum (Radboudumc/NIZO food research), Bas Dutilh (Radboudumc/CMBI), Celia van Gelder (Radboudumc/NBIC)
Course description
The Metagenomics course covers Metagenomics and metatranscriptomics of prokaryotes, eukaryotes and viruses. Topics are Metagenomics-specific issues like calling taxa, functional annotation, metagenome assembly and comparative Metagenomics.
Target audience
The course is aimed at PhD students and post-docs or researchers with a similar level, but scientific programmers and data analysts with a background in biology and bioinformatics may also attend. Some bioinformatics experience (e.g. Linux, Bash or scripting) is required.
Participants will be invited to introduce their own research questions. Towards the end of the course remaining questions specific to your research will be discussed with the group.
Course programme
The programme for the course can be found here.
Registration & Information
Registration for this course has closed.
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