Microbial Genome & Microbiome Analysis Course Content Timeline

MODULE 1: MICROBIAL GENOME

May 19, 2024

Lecture 1

Introduction to the course structure and objectives

Ubuntu and Basic Linux Commands Part 1

May 23, 2024

Lecture 2

Nucleotide sequence database: DNA and RNA

Homework:

Homology Search with BLAST (Part 1)

Basic Linux Commands Part 2: Search and Filter, Input/Output Redirection

Basic Linux Commands Part 2: Download, File permission, Compress and Decompress

Introduction to Bash Scripting

Bash Cheat Sheet

Bash Cheat Sheet (Download to your device to view)

May 26, 2024

Lecture 3

Homology Search with BLAST (Part 2): Pairwise Alignment

Bash Script and AWK

Homework Answer

May 30, 2024

Lecture 4

Primer and Probe Design

Wrap-up Linux Command Line

Q&A

June 2, 2024

Lecture 5

Multiple Alignment

Phylogenetic Trees

Basic R1: Data types, Basic calculations, Data structure, Basic Functions (For loop, If ...else, While loop)

Code editing with VScode: Homework

June 6, 2024

Lecture 6

Pairwise and Multiple genome alignment with Mauve

PDFPPTXYOUTUBE

Basic plot in R2

PPTXQuestionAnswerYOUTUBE

Introduction to GitHub

Test answer

June 9, 2024

Lecture 7

Sanger Sequencing method

Introduction of next-generation sequencing (NGS)

Lecture ppt

Pacbio

AVITI

SISC

ILLUMINA

MGI

Slides

June 13, 2024

Lecture 8

Gene and Genome Annotation

Basic statistics in R3

June 16, 2024

Lecture 9

I. Introduction of Whole genome sequencing analysis for Microbes

II. Microbial WGS upstream analysis

1. QC and Trimming
2. Alignment/Mapping to the reference genome, QC and visualization of BAM

III. Microbial WGS downstream analysis

1. Calling variants and visualization of variants (VCF)
2. Building and visualization of Phylogenetic Trees

June 20, 2024

Lecture 10

Denovo assembly for WGS of Microbes

Annotation of WGS and Pathway Analysis

June 23, 2024

Lecture 11

Serotyping, genotyping and phenotyping for Microbes

Section 1: Serotyping, phenotyping

Section 2: Genotype and molecular subtyping

Section 3: MLST analysis for microbes

Section 4: How to use pubMLST database + CoreGenome MLST practice

June 27, 2024

Lecture 12

Review Module 1: Microbial Genome Analysis

Introduction of Metagenomics and Microbiome (Module 2)

MODULE 2: MICROBIOME ANALYSIS

June 30,2024

Lecture 13 Introduction to R for Microbiome Data (part 1)

1. Introduction Some Useful R Functions + Some Useful R Packages for Microbiome Data: Readr, Ggpubr, Tidyverse

2. Introduction to ggplot2 and basic plot

3. R package ggplot2 in R4 for microbiome analysis + Practice

July 4,2024

Lecture 14 Introduction to R for Microbiome Data (part 2)

1 Introduction to R for Microbiome Data (part 2)

2 Experimental Design for Microbiome studies (16S, shotgun and WGS)

July 7,2024

Lecture 15

1 Wrap-up R5

2 Challenging when working with microbiome samples

July 11, 2024

Lecture 16

1. Bioinformatic Analysis of Microbiome Data & 2. Microbiome Data Structure

3. Introduction to QIIME 2

4. Basic Data Processing in QIIME 2

July 14, 2024

Lecture 17

1. Building feature table and feature representative sequences from raw reads

2. Practice

July 18, 2024

Lecture 18

Assigning Taxonomy & Building Phylogenetic Tree

July 21, 2024

Lecture 19

1. Clustering Sequences into OTUs

2. OTU Methods in Numerical Taxonomy

July 25, 2024

Lecture 20

1. Alpha diversity & Visualization

2. Beta diversity & Visualization

July 28, 2024

Lecture 21

Differential abundance analysis (DAA)

August 1, 2024

Lecture 22

Library prep and multiplexing for 16S and shotgun metagenomics

August 4, 2024

Lecture 23

Shotgun metagenomics

August 8, 2024

Lecture 24

Microbiome Application:

  • Application in Environment & Aquaculture:  PPTXYOUTUBE
  • Application in Agriculture & Industry:  PPTXYOUTUBE
  • Applications in health and clinic:  PPTXYOUTUBE
  • DNA RNA extraction and NGS:  PDFYOUTUBE

MODULE 3: LONG READ MICROBIOME Timeline Project for MODULE 3

October 6, 2024 (20h-22h30)

Lecture 25

Overview of the course:

  • Main content: PDFPPTXYOUTUBE
  • Review old lecture MGMA
  • Introduction new platform

16S full-length ONT

October 13, 2024 (20h-22h30)

Lecture 26

Shotgun Metagenomics Workflow using Oxford Nanopore Platform

October 20, 2024 (20h-22h30)

Lecture 27

Introduction Project

WGS_ONT_Virus

Practice

Pacbio_full_length_16S

Practice
  • Microbiome 16S Open In ColabYOUTUBE

    October 27, 2024 (19h-22h30)

Lecture 28

PacBio

ONT

References

Books

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