This virtual training workshop is part of the Genetic Epidemiology and Bioinformatics Training Programme (GenEpi-BioTrain). It's organised as part of Wave 2 dedicated to antimicrobial resistant pathogens. 

The aim of this virtual training workshop is to introduce the participants to theoretical and practical aspects of generating bacterial genome assemblies, and the common tools for how to assess assembly quality.

Duration: Two half-days on 4 and 7 December 2023 from 10:00 to 14:30

Location: Online - Find the link after enrolment. 

Audience: Microbiologists and bioinformaticians interested in generating bacterial genome assemblies, and in assembly quality assessment tools.

Objectives:  

Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

1.     Explain the basics of how raw sequencing reads are processed into genomes.

2.     Explain why some organisms assemble into few contigs and others into a lot of contigs (when doing a de-novo assembly).

3.     Describe the most common stats used for evaluating bacterial genome assemblies.

4.     Understand the impact of read-length and base-calling quality for assembly.

5.     Identify a contaminated genome assembly.

6.     Be familiar with the software tools and strategies used for evaluating bacterial genome assemblies.

Participation: The recordings of this course are open for public enrolment.