Develop a practical foundation for handling and interpreting next-generation sequencing data. This workshop-style winter school begins with Linux, cloud computing and sequence-quality assessment, then uses containers for reproducible analysis. Exercises cover short- and long-read genome assembly, assembly evaluation, annotation and visualisation, followed by phylogenetics, phylogenomics, RNA-seq processing and differential expression. Examples compare Illumina, Nanopore and PacBio data across biological systems and experimental designs. Live online, 8–12 February, 14:00–20:00 Europe/Berlin (C
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This practical course follows microbial metagenomics from environmental sampling to biological interpretation. Advanced PhD students and early postdoctoral researchers work through DNA extraction from soil and water, library preparation and long-read metabarcoding using Nanopore or PacBio technologies. Computational training covers raw-read processing, assembly, reconstruction of metagenome-assembled genomes, functional annotation and statistical analysis in reproducible workflows. Phage genomics and single-cell methods extend the core approaches. Lectures, experiments, group work and discussi