DIB Lab NSURP Research Project 2020

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Welcome to the project home for our NSURP research materials! The training website contains a much prettier (rendered) version of these materials - check it out!

This project is designed to facilitate learning bioinformatic techniques while working through a metagenomics project on publicly-available data.

During this project, you will learn how to:

  • keep a detailed lab notebook
  • interact with an HPC (we'll use Farm)
  • install and manage software environments using conda
  • download sequencing data and other files from the internet and public databases
  • interpret and use different file formats in bioinformatics and computing
  • conduct quality analysis and control for sequencing data
  • determine the taxonomic composition of sequencing reads
  • quickly compare large sequencing datasets
  • build reproducible workflows using snakemake
  • document workflows using git and GitHub
  • troubleshoot errors during your analysis

The material in this repository was primarily written or aggregated by @bluegenes, @taylorreiter, and @hehouts. It adapts and builds on tutorials from the following sources: