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SPAAM Summer School 2022: Introduction to Ancient Metagenomics Teaching Slides
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- 1. Leibniz-Institut für Naturstoff-Forschung und Infektionsbiologie Hans-Knöll-Institut / Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- 2. Harvard University / Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology / Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- 3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- 4. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology / Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- 5. Harvard University / Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- 6. University of Melbourne
Description
Teaching slides of the practicals and lectures of the 2022 SPAAM Summer School: Introduction to Ancient Metagenomics (Aug. 1-5 2022).
https://spaam-community.github.io/wss-summer-school/#/2022/
DAY 1
- Lecture Introduction to NGS data: James Fellows Yates
- What is NGS sequencing and what does its data look like?
- Practical BareBonesBash 1: Aida Andrades Valtueña and Thiseas Lamnidis
- Introduction to the UNIX command line.
- Practical BareBonesBash 2: Aida Andrades Valtueña and Thiseas Lamnidis
- How to navigate and batch-manipulate files.
- Round table Introductions
- Welcome - let's get to know eachother
DAY 2
- Lecture Introduction to ancient DNA: Christina Warinner
- How to identify and handle DNA from ancient contexts
- Practical Bytesize git: James Fellows Yates and Megan Michel
- What is git and github? How to clone a repository? What does commit/pull/push mean?
- Practical ancientMetagenomeDir: James Fellows Yates and Megan Michel
- Where to get ancient metagenomic comparative data, and why is metadata important?
- Git practice
- Practical nf-core/eager: James Fellows Yates and Megan Michel
- How do I quality control NGS aDNA data? How do I remove adapters and contamination? How to perform taxonomic profiling?
- Round table Project organisation
- How to structure my project analysis folders? How to reproducibly document my work?
DAY 3
- Lecture Introduction to Metagenomics: Christina Warinner
- What are the questions tackled in metagenomics? What are the challenges?
- Practical Introduction to R and the tidyverse / Introduction to Python and Pandas: Clemens Schmid and Nikolay Oskolkov / Maxime Borry and Alex Hübner
- How to read/write files and run statistical analyses? How to make figures with ggplot2/plotnine
- (Note: Parallel sessions partcipants can choose which to attend based on their prior experience)
- Practical Taxonomic Profiling, OTU Tables and Visualisation: Maxime Borry and Irina Velsko
- Python practice. How to normalise OTU tables and perform microbial ecology analyses.
- Round table Taxonomic Classifiers
- How do I pick a taxonomic classifier? What is best for aDNA?
DAY 4
- Lecture Introduction to microbial genomics: Alexander Herbig
- How can we learn from studying the genomes of microbes? What questions can we ask?
- Practical Genome mapping: Alexander Herbig and Alina Hiss
- Why and how do we map against a reference? What parameters are important for aDNA?
- Practical Genome assembly: Alexander Hübner and Nikolay Oskolkov
- De novo methods for obtaining metagenomically assembled genomes (MAGs). What are the best pipelines and parameters for ancient DNA?
- Roundtable Databases
- Why are databases so important? What impact does database selection have on my results? What pitfalls should I watch out for?
DAY 5
- Lecture Evolutionary Biology: Sebastian Duchene
- How have microbes and microbial communities evolved and changed through time? How does this inform our current understanding of the relationships among microbes?
- Practical Phylogenomics: Aida Andrades Valtueña and Arthur Kocher
- How to perform phylogenetic analysis. What to consider when dealing with low coverage data
- Practical Functional Genomics: Irina Velsko and James Fellows Yates
- How can we infer genomic function from sequences? What sort of analysis can we do?
- Round table Workshop recap
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SPAAM Summer School 2022 - 0A - Welcome and Organisational.pdf
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