Training and Professional Development

  • Virtual Genome Sequencing and Assembly Workshop

    The Computational Biology Core within the Institute for Systems Genomics is pleased to announce the Virtual Genome Sequencing and Assembly workshop July12-15 !!!  Open to all!  Virtual, but with live instructors! For more details and to register https://bioinformatics.uconn.edu/cbc-workshops/

    Workshop schedule

    Day 1: Introduction to Linux, HPC, HTS

    Day 2-4 : Introduction to k-mer plots, high throughput sequencing, quality control of sequence data, contaminant detection, Genome assembly strategies and short-read assembly, Long-read and hybrid assembly, post-processing, assembly benchmarking

    Workshop: Genome Sequencing and Assembly 

    Dates: July12-15 (4 days) 
    Time: 9.00am - 12.00pm 
    Location: Online
    Cost: $350 (UConn affiliates including UConn Health)
              $483 (External Participants)


    For anyone with keen interest and desire to develop Genome Assembly skills.

     

    For more information, contact: Vijender at cbcsupport@uconn.edu