Metagenomics Course
This course equips you with essential skills for metagenomics in environmental water studies. You will learn to design sampling strategies, extract DNA/RNA, select sequencing approaches, apply bioinformatics workflows, and perform statistical analysis to produce reliable taxonomic and functional insights suitable for biological research and publications.

4 to 360h flexible workload
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What will I learn?
Gain a practical guide to conducting effective water metagenomics studies, from sampling design to data interpretation. Master planning comparative experiments, selecting sequencing methods, improving nucleic acid extraction, minimizing contamination and bias, and applying bioinformatics pipelines, statistical tools, visualization techniques, and validation for dependable, reproducible, publication-quality results.
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Develop skills
- Design water metagenomics studies with clear hypotheses, controls, and metadata.
- Optimize sequencing strategies by selecting platforms, depth, and hybrid methods.
- Execute clean lab workflows to extract high-quality DNA/RNA from water samples.
- Run complete bioinformatics pipelines including QC, taxonomic profiling, MAGs, and annotation.
- Analyze and report results with diversity stats, functional profiles, and clear visualizations.
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