Topic: variant calling

This live course introduces sequencing-data analysis through a real Illumina dataset. It explains how sequencing technologies affect data quality and interpretation, then develops the Linux and file-format skills needed for practical analysis. Exercises cover quality control, adapter removal, read mapping, alignment statistics, genome-browser visualization, DNA variant calling, VCF filtering and interpretation. Participants compare analytical tools and learn to recognize errors that can affect biological conclusions. The online sessions run 09:00–17:00 CET (UTC+1) on 23–25 November 2026. The

Use population genomic data to investigate structure, gene flow, demographic history and natural selection. The workshop starts with short-read quality control, alignment and variant calling, then examines supervised and unsupervised population-structure inference and introgression. Further sessions compare coalescent, composite-likelihood and approximate Bayesian demographic models, genome-wide association and selection scans, and genotype–environment associations. Landscape-genomic exercises test isolation by distance, environmental effects and barriers to gene flow. Live online, 22–26 Febr