The Metagenomics Workshop Incubator Carpentry
2025-01-07 - 2025-01-08
Workshop info:The Metagenomics Workshop Incubator CarpentryTuesday January 7- Wednesday January 8, 2025 –> in person only 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM each dayUniversity of Vermont campusRegister 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 analysisImprove the reproducibility of your researchTake your first steps in analyzing big dataEnhance your ability to collaborate with programmers and data scientists
Cost:The workshop is free for participants
Requirements:No prior coding experience is requiredBring 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
