The aim of this 3-day workshop, hosted jointly by the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (de.NBI) and the NFDI4Microbiota, will be to give students a brief overview of the tools and bioinformatics techniques available for the analysis of next generation sequence (NGS) data from microbial communities. The format will comprise a mixture of lectures and hands-on tutorials where students will process example data sets in real-time in the de.NBI cloud environment.

A brief agenda can be found here.

The aim of this 3-day workshop will be to give students a brief overview of the tools and bioinformatics techniques available for the analysis of next generation sequence (NGS) data from microbial communities. The format will comprise a mixture of lectures and hands-on tutorials where students will process example data sets in real-time in the de.NBI cloud environment. A compact introduction into the Linux operating system and the usage of the command line interface will be given upstream to the introducing part to guarantee a consistent baseline for the following lectures. After covering general aspects of sequence based analysis (e.g. pre-processing, quality measurements, error handling) advantages and disadvantages of whole metagenome sequencing will be illustrated. As WGS metagenomics has the potential to address the full spectra of genome-based issues, the focus here will be on assembly, binning and taxonomic and functional analysis with the aid of different bioinformatic tools. For analyzing metagenomics assemblies the EMGB platform will be demonstrated. In a last part we will cover the submission process of metagenomes to European Nucleotide Archive using the demonstration dataset as an example.

Please send your application to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..d (subject MG­course2022 ). There will be no participation fee, yet travel and accommodation expenses need to be paid by the participants.

  Registration: Email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (subject MG-­course2022)
  Deadline: 20.11.2022

Please note that participation to this course does not depend on the actual Linux experience of the applicant. Both, experienced as well as inexperienced Linux users are encouraged to submit an application. However, the Linux introducing session in the afternoon of the first day is optional only for applicants fulfilling the Linux prerequisite.

Travel advices:

• How to get to Bielefeld and its University
• Plans of the Main Hall and the Campus

Accommodation advices:

• List of hotels in proximity of the Bielefeld univeristy (german PDF)
• Plan of Bielefeld with hotel informations (german PDF)
• Urban railway plan with hotel informations (german PDF)

The City of Bielefeld provides an Online booking system for hotels on their website.