Workshop: NGS – Methods and Genomes Annotation

23-25 November 2020, Online

Summary

This worshop introduces how to use Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data in the genome study.

It consists of three parts and includes:

Day 1: Introduction to the Genome Assembly. Lecturer Dr. Zdravka Ivanova.

• Introduction to Genome Assembly (Using Velvet).
• Optimized de Bruijn Graph assemblies (using the Velvet Optimizer and SPAdes ).

Day 2: De novo transcriptome reconstruction with RNA-Seq. Lecturer Dr. Vesselin Baev.

• De novo transcriptome reconstruction with RNA-Seq.
• Small Non-coding RNA Clustering using BlockClust.

Day 3: Machine Learning. Lecturer Dr. Georgi Minkov.

• Classification in Machine Learning.
• Interval-Wise Testing for OMICS data.

Exercises demonstrating the presented technologies are provided for each topic.

Acknowledgements

This workshop is supported by funding from project PlantaSYST, as well as the IMBB Plovdiv.

• Dr. Vesselin Baev, The Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB, University of Plovdiv), Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
• Dr. George Minkov, The Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB, University of Plovdiv), Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
• Dr. Zdravka Ivanova, The Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB, University of Plovdiv), Plovdiv, Bulgaria.