Course will start on the 1st of June 2021.
This is an advanced R course on 16S amplicon based metagenomic analysis. It is designed for master students in their second semester or above. The course consists of a practical and a seminar. The seminar will cover topics related to plant microbe interactions, community ecology, analysis of sequencing data, and ecological concepts.
In the practical you will be handed a dataset from a large experiment. You will learn how to deal with short read data in R, how to infer amplicon variants and how to assign amplicon variants to a taxonomic unit. You will then proceed to further analyzing microbial communities using more advanced statistics to draw ecologically meaningful conclusions. Finally, you will interpret and discuss your results with the other members of the course.
The course will be online only. There will be at least 1 mandatory online-meeting per day, seminar presentations will also be online.
- Trainer/in: Claude Becker
- Trainer/in: Niklas Schandry