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Eukaryotic Genome Assembly: How to Use BlobToolKit for Quality Assessment 

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Overview

Gain practical skills in using the BlobToolKit to assess the quality of a eukaryotic genome assembly and improve your research.

Duration

3 weeks

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Eukaryotic Genome Assembly: How to Use BlobToolKit for Quality Assessment
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Highlights

  • Earn a certificate upon completion
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Eukaryotic Genome Assembly: How to Use BlobToolKit for Quality Assessment
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More about this course
  • On this three-week course, you’ll gain the skills to assess the quality of published novel genomes and detect the presence of multiple organisms within a sample – including parasites, symbionts, and contaminants
  • With this knowledge, you’ll be prepared to use these approaches with your own projects to improve your work
  • Next, you’ll learn how to navigate the BlobToolKit viewer, including filtering and different settings
  • With this knowledge, you’ll be able to interpret the visual representations of genomes from samples containing multiple organisms
  • You’ll learn how to go further with BlobToolKit with techniques such as cleaning a genome assembly and assessing newly generated data

Eukaryotic Genome Assembly: How to Use BlobToolKit for Quality Assessment
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FutureLearn 
Curriculum

What is BlobToolKit?

Welcome to Week 1

About BlobToolKit

Exploring the BlobToolKit web viewer

Week 1 wrap-up

Navigating with the BlobToolKit viewer

Get to know the BlobToolKit viewer

Using BlobToolKit to examine a single genome assembly

Examining multiple genome assemblies using Datasets

Putting your learning into practice

Going further with BlobToolKit

Welcome to Week 3

Cleaning an example assembly

Try it for yourself

Course assignment

Completing the main part of the course

Using BTK on your own de novo assemblies

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