The aim of the course is to familiarize students with Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data analyses starting from experimental planning to genome scale data assembly.

Topics will include: experimental design of NGS studies, understanding the properties of NGS data, sequence quality control and filtering, assembling transcriptomes and downstream analyses, such as transcriptome annotation.

Teachers:
Hannu Mäkinen (hannu.makinen@utu.fi)
Spiros Papakostas (spyridon.papakostas@utu.fi)
Silva Uusi-Heikkilä (silva.uusi-heikkila@utu.fi)