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Course aims

Metagenomic methods continue to transform the analysis of biodiversity and provide exciting possibilities for studying the vast proportion of ‘hidden diversity’ of species hardly known to science. Massive amplicon datasets can be generated from complex specimen mixtures, and simplify studies of the ecology, evolution and conservation for ever more populations and species with high accuracy. However, data processing and interpretation require careful application of bioinformatics pipelines, to generate ‘clean’ data that reflect the true genetic variants required for use in evolutionary and ecological modelling. The course will teach the required bioinformatics and data handling skills, with focus on the potential of metabarcode sequences as a resource in biodiversity studies, taxonomy and population genetics.
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 This workshop is organised by the iBioGen project funded under the Horizon 2020 Twinning scheme, following from our previous workshop in 2019.
​The course is fully funded by Horizon 2020, so it is completely FREE, with no fees for participants.
The workshop will be conducted online.