Variant Detection using Galaxy Australia (EMBL-ABR: Melbourne Bioinformatics Node)

This workshop provides a basic introduction to Galaxy Australia, and will include a hands-on beginners tutorial for variant detection in microbial data using Galaxy Australia.  The workshop is part of the Biosciences Data Enhanced Virtual Lab (DeVL) Galaxy Australia project and will be led by Dr Igor Makunin from the University of Queensland, who is a trainer for for Galaxy Australia. Igor will lead the workshop from Queensland, with trained facilitators on hand at a number of venues across Australia to assist participants locally. INTENDED AUDIENCE Researchers and students with an interest in genome assembly. Knowledge of basic biology is assumed. LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this training, participants will be able to use tools in Galaxy Australia to perform variant detection in microbial data. TOPICS TO BE COVERED Galaxy Australia

• Log in.

Variant Detection

• What is it?
• How can we use Galaxy Australia to detect variants, such as single nucleotide polymorphisms and insertions/deletions?
• An example using bacteria data.

Visualize Variants

• How can we use Galaxy Australia to visualize our called variants?

WHAT TO BRING Please bring along your own laptop with an up to date web browser installed (Chrome or Firefox are fine). This workshop is part of a series of Galaxy Australia events. If you’d like to hear when registrations open for other events, please subscribe to EMBL-ABR News.