This course is intended to provide an overview of the bioinformatics resources and solutions provided by Oxford Nanopore for analysis of your data. It brings together introductory content covering platforms such as EPI2ME and EPI2ME Labs, and includes representative demonstrations of each platform. This course also includes introductory material on file formats for data generated from sequencing and reference genome annotation files such as the FASTA format. The second chapter of this course briefly covers fundamental first steps in data analysis including assessment of your read data and also mapping/aligning reads against a reference genome.
Learning objectives
- Learn about different bioinformatics platforms available for your analysis
- Understand which analysis solution is best for your experience and application
- Identify what tools and workflows are available for different applications
- Learn about data file formats
- Learn about reference genome file formats