Winter School in Bioinformatics

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 (CET). Fee €480. Designed for researchers with a biology background but little hands-on sequencing-data experience; Linux is introduced. Participants may bring datasets for discussion.