Viral Metagenomics 2021

Schedule

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14:00 1. Introduction What is metagenomics
What do we call viral dark matter
14:10 2. The dataset Where does the dataset come from?
What format is the sequencing data?
14:30 3. Cross-assembly What is a sequence assembly?
How is different a cross-assembly from a normal assembly?
15:05 4. Mapping What does a read aligning to a scaffold indicate?
15:50 5. Abundance profiles How does the number of reads aligned relate to the abundance of the scaffold?
16:20 6. Profiles correlation How does including more samples affect the binning step?
16:45 7. Re-assembly
17:15 Finish

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