Metagenomics Summer School

A metagenomics summer school to teach the fundamentals of metagenomics data, data management and analysis.

This workshop will be taught over four consecutive days from 9:00am-4:30pm on the 10th to the 13th of December at the University of Auckland and is for people interested in metagenomics research.

This is a hands on workshop that will look on various concepts of metagenomics data management and analysis for genomics research, including best practices for organisation of projects and data, use of command line utilities, use of command line tools to analyse metagenomics data.

This lesson assumes learner has no prior experience with the tools covered in the workshop. However, learners are expected to have some familiarity with biological concepts.

Participants must bring their own laptops and plan to participate actively.