You will find course material that you may use to offer a training for your target audience. Your target audience could include beginners in bioinformatics or public health professionals, who are expected to have a future role in using whole-genome sequencing for public health and pathogen surveillance 

Audience:  Trainers in introduction to Genomic Epidemiology and Public Health Bioinformatics.

Objectives: 

Learning objectives of the training material include:

• Displaying, manipulating, and interpreting phylogenetic trees
• Extracting meaningful insights into the genetic diversity, population structure, and evolutionary history of pathogens relevant to FWD surveillance.
• Identifying genetic variations among pathogens associated with FWD (alignment of DNA or protein sequences)
• Finding the best evolutionary model for Maximum-Likelihood (ML) analyses for accurately reconstructing evolutionary relationships among pathogens
• Being able to identify genetic relatedness and transmission patterns of FWD pathogens (using distance or ML methods) 
• Constructing temporally informative phylogenetic trees by evaluating the clock signal in phylogenetic data and applying time-scaling techniques

Access: These course materials are open for public, regardless of people intending to teach the topic or learn form the materials in a self-study modality.