Bioinformatics for Molecular Identification
Date
14-17 March 2019
Location
UCAS, Yanqihu Campus, Beijing, China
Credit points
1 CP (25-30 hours of work)
Course Language
English
Target Group
Doctoral Researchers and interested Postdoctoral Researchers
Contents
DNA barcoding, DNA taxonomy and metabarcoding
Bioinformatics frameworks and tools
DNA barcoding reference data
Data processing for community ecology
Goal
Familiarity with Linux and writing commands
Key tools, how to obtain, compile and run them
Ability to produce basic pipelines
Knowledge of reference data sources and methods for retrieval and processing
Producing input files for community ecology analysis.
Didactic Elements
Lectures (5 hours); Practical sessions (20 hours)
You will need
Knowledge of basic commands in either Unix/Linux/Cygwin
Some foundation knowledge of R
Some knowledge of algorithms behind key software (Blast, Raxml)
Expected performance
Active participation, including production of taxonomic profiles for query DNA data
Lecturer(s) in charge
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Douglas Chesters
dchesters@ioz.ac.cn
PhD in Phyloinformatics from Imperial College London; Experienced in progressed methodology for constructing and utilizing species-rich phylogenies from mined insect data.
Dr. Tesfaye Wubet
tesfaye.wubet@ufz.de
Senior Scientist in Environmental Genomics at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Halle, Germany.
