Bioinformatics tutorials

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Bedtools tutorial

beginner

Explore and wrangle .bed files with bedtools.
IGV tutorial

beginner

Distinguish real variants from artifacts using the IGV genome browser.
DNA sequencing QC

beginner

Evaluate the quality of a sequencing run by running fastp on your FASTQ files.
BAM parsing with samtools

beginner

Explore and wrangle .sam/.bam files with samtools.
Sequence alignment with bowtie2

beginner

Align reads to a reference genome.
BLAST tutorial

beginner

Use BLAST to align DNA and protein sequences.
K-mer counting with Jellyfish

beginner

Learn the basics of k-mer counting using Jellyfish
Aligning genomes with MUMmer

intermediate

New

Use MUMmer to align two bacterial genomes and visualize the results with Circa.
Viral Amplicon Sequencing

intermediate

Analyze viral amplicon sequence data using a real SARS-CoV-2 dataset.
Viral Phylogenetics

intermediate

New

Perform viral phylogenetics analysis using real SARS-COV2 whole-genome sequences.
Efficient sequence analysis with bqtools

beginner

New

Exploring bqtools, a toolkit for working with and manipulating BINSEQ files
Variant calling

advanced

Use variant calling to decode a secret message stored in sequencing data.
Building trees with SKA

intermediate

Use ska.rust to compare and align closely related small genomes using split k-mers