Computational Approaches in Microbial Community Research

This is a block (pro)seminar covering topics related to microbial community research.

Tutor: Cedric Laczny

Dates:

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Place and Time: E2.1, room 206, 8:30 a.m. sharp

Requirements for participation:

Certificate requirements:

Submitting the first version of the slides (see presentation guidelines, slide guidelines)
Successful presentation:
- Talk: 30 minutes (proseminar); 40 minutes (seminar)
- Questions from the audience after the presentation
Attendance to all presentations
Submitting a summary (ca. 2 pages)

Topics: The presentation should cover all papers (seminar) or only the first paper (proseminar) assigned to a topic.

Nr.	Presentation	Topic	Participant
1	Proseminar	1) Kraken: ultrafast metagenomic sequence classification using exact alignments	Carsten K.
2	Seminar	1) Fast and sensitive protein alignment using DIAMOND	Ilkay U.
3	Proseminar	1) IDBA-UD: a de novo assembler for single-cell and metagenomic sequencing data with highly uneven depth; 2) MEGAHIT: an ultra-fast single-node solution for large and complex metagenomics assembly via succinct de Bruijn graph	Nadja G.
4	Seminar	1) Detection of low-abundance bacterial strains in metagenomic datasets by eigengenome partitioning	Saheli D.
5	Proseminar	1) PANNZER: high-throughput functional annotation of uncharacterized proteins in an error-prone environment	Treesa S.
6	Proseminar	1) Metagenomic biomarker discovery and explanation	Itrat R.
7	Seminar	1) Identification and assembly of genomes and genetic elements in complex metagenomic samples without using reference genomes	Andrea K.
8	Proseminar	1) MetaBAT, an efficient tool for accurately reconstructing single genomes from complex microbial communities	Samira G.