NGS alignment and variant calling practical tutorial

The OBiLab provides on-site courses on computational/biomolecular topics for prospective and practicing students and researchers in the life sciences. We also support courses on demand, customized for the needs of attendees.

In this course students will walk through basic alignment and variant calling processes using two popular tools - bwa and freebayes and several utilities for inspecting and manipulating the results of NGS data analysis. Participants will use the NIST Genome in a Bottle reference truth set to gain insight into the effects of various filtering and processing options in a context where the sensitivity and specificity of their computational experiments can be precisely determined.

Tutor: Erik Garrison

Date: Thursday 02/04/2015 - 10am-13am

Course venue: Aula Seminari IGB (second floor) , via P. Castellino 111, Napoli

Course Fees: free

Deadline for Subscription: 1/04/2015

Max number of participants: 14

Course Language: English

Contact: obilab@igb.cnr.it

Course Info: https://github.com/ekg/alignment-and-variant-calling-tutorial

Course requirements: Bring your laptop! All sessions are practical