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Long-read Data Analysis Workshop


Sydney - 18th - 19th July 2017

Instructors

  • Katherine Champ (KC) - Bioplatforms Australia, Sydney
  • Tonia Russell (TR) - Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics, Sydney
  • Anna Syme (AS) - Melbourne Bioinformatics, Melbourne
  • Torsten Seemann (TS) - Melbourne Bioinformatics, Melbourne
  • Nandan Deshpande - UNSW System Biology Initiative, Sydney

Timetable

Day 1

18th July - Room M020, The Red Centre, Kensington Campus, UNSW, Sydney

Time Topic Links Instructor
9:00 Welcome and registration Workshop Host and KC
9:30 Introduction to long-read sequencing (Lecture) TS
10:30 Break
10:30 Long-read data – Practical considerations (Lecture) TR
11:30 Introduction to Command-line (Practical) ND
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Introduction to NGS – Technology, data formats and quality control ND
14:30 Illumina de novo assembly (Velvet) (Practical) ND
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Illumina de novo assembly (Velvet) (Practical) ND
17:00 Q&A All

Day 2

19th July - Room M020, The Red Centre, Kensington Campus, UNSW, Sydney

Time Topic Links Instructor
9:00 Long-read data – Quality control (Practical) TR
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 PacBio assembly + Illimuna polishing (Practical) TS and AS
12:30 Lunch
13:30 PacBio assembly + Illimuna polishing (Continue) (Practical) TS and AS
15:00 Break
15:30 Comparison of Illimuna and PacBio assembly TS
16:45 Q&A, wrap up (how to access course’s VM) & survey All