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The Metagenomics Workshop Incubator Carpentry
January 7, 2025 - January 8, 2025
Workshop info:
The Metagenomics Workshop Incubator Carpentry
Tuesday January 7- Wednesday January 8, 2025 –> in person only
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM each day
University of Vermont campus
Register for the in-person workshop
Maximum is 25 participants
What You’ll Learn:
Project Organization and Management
Learn how to structure your metadata, organize and document your metagenomics data and bioinformatics workflow, and access data on the NCBI sequence read archive (SRA) database.
Introduction to the Command Line
Learn to navigate your file system, create, copy, move, and remove files and directories, and automate repetitive tasks using scripts and wildcards.
Introduction to R
Use R studio to manage several data types and structures.
Data Processing and Visualization for Metagenomics
Use command-line tools to perform quality control, metagenomic assembly, metagenomic binning, taxonomic assignment, and diversity exploration.
Who Should Attend:
PUI researchers from various fields with interest in metagenomics research
Why Attend:
Increase the efficiency and accuracy of data analysis
Improve the reproducibility of your research
Take your first steps in analyzing big data
Enhance your ability to collaborate with programmers and data scientists
Cost:
The workshop is free for participants
Requirements:
No prior coding experience is required
Bring a laptop that can load required software (Mac or PC)
Contact Information:
For inquiries or additional information, please contact Heather Driscoll (hdriscol@norwich.edu
VBRN and UVM Data Science Core Team