Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Eukaryotic Genome Assembly: How to Use BlobToolKit for Quality Assessment
The course introduces BlobToolkit software used in quality assessment of novel or existing, publicly available eukaryote genomes. It teaches how to navigate the BlobToolKit web viewer, including filtering and different settings, to interpret visual representations of genomes from samples containing multiple organisms. The course demonstrates how to identify organisms/symbionts/contaminants using GC-coverage plots and offers a peer-reviewed hands on exercise to put the knowledge into practice.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dr Sujai Kumar
Senior bioinformatician
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Dr Treasa Creavin
Head of Scientific Meetings and Digital Learning
Wellcome Connecting Science
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Use BlobToolKit to assess the quality of genome assemblies
- Interpret different visual representations of genome assemblies
- Describe how to set up and interpret a new genome assembly
- Evaluate existing genome assemblies which have been shared by using the public BlobToolKit server
- Identify organisms / symbionts / contaminants using GC-coverage plots
Syllabus
- Introduction to the BlobToolKit software for quality assessment of novel genomes, and background of why it is useful
- Interpreting BlobToolkit visual representations of genomes from samples containing multiple organisms
- Accessing genome assemblies from public databases and repositories in order to use BlobToolkit to assess their quality
- Outline of advanced use of BlobToolkit to assess newly generated data, potentially including learners’ own genome assemblies.
Issued on 11th December 2023
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