Long-reads Bioinformatics Summer School

Welcome to the LongTREC bioinformatics summer school on analysis of long-reads technology data.

We have organised a 4-day course with the aim of introducing masters’ students, doctoral candidates and early career postdoctoral fellows into the super exciting world of long-reads. 

In this course, we will introduce you to diverse topics, from an introduction into the technologies and basic data processing, to analyzing long-reads transcriptomics, single cell long-reads and many other exciting topics.

What will I learn?

• An overview of different long-read sequencing technologies
• Best practice in experimental design
• How to evaluate quality control read using SQANTI-reads
• How to use long-reads to identify and quantify transcripts
• Hands on experience in genome and functional annotation
• Hands on experience in Differential Expression analysis and haplotype identification
• Identification of RNA modifications using long reads
• An overview of single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
• Principles and practice of metatranscriptomics with long reads

Who is this training for?

Early career researchers who are in the grant application or experimental design stages of project centred around long-read sequencing.

Course pre-requisites

Familiarity with the command line is recommended. You should be familiar with actions as in the Software Carpentry lesson on The Unix Shell, or work through these before the training starts.  

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