Description:

The first step in almost all bioinformatic pipelines is sequence alignment. There are many software tools available to accomplish this task. Choosing an appropriate tool and then using it at scale can be intimidating. This workshop will remove some of the mystery by suggesting aligners for specific tasks and covering the basics of using each suggested tool including: bwa, bowtie2, hisat2, and minimap2. Participants will compose and run submission scripts for each of these, and we will look at the output they create.

Prerequisites: There are no formal prerequisites for this workshop, but we recommend that attendees have an active account on Quest and are familiar with the basics of submitting jobs.

The Foundations in Genomics Analyses series will be taught in person on the Chicago campus and virtually during the fall 2024 quarter and will cover topics and skills foundational to conducting genomics-related research. This series is a collaboration between Northwestern IT's Research Computing and Data Services and the Galter Library and will be taught by Haley Carter and Pamela Shaw. Attendees are welcome to attend just one or as many workshops in the series they are interested in. However, there may be some references to previous weeks' material in any given workshop.