Joint de.NBI & de.KCD Summer School 2026 - Cloud Enabled (Meta/Pan)Genomics

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Educators:
Alexander Sczyrba, Nils Kleinbölting, Nils Mittler, Burkhard Linke, Sebastian Jünemann, Tizian Schulz, Jochen Blom, Oliver Schwengers (BiGi), Ulrike Wittig, Wolfgang Müller (de.NBI SysBio)

Date:
28. September - 2. October 2026

Location:
Gießen

Contents:
Join de.NBI and de.KCD for an intensive five-day Summer School at the intersection of life sciences, cloud computing, and research data management. Researchers at all career stages and highly motivated students will explore state-of-the-art methods in genomics, metagenomics, and pangenomics, from reproducible workflows on the de.NBI Cloud to sustainable data sharing with FAIR principles. The Summer School will be a mixture of key-notes, expert lectures and hands-on tutorials and offers, beyond the technical skills, a unique opportunity to connect with community experts as well as other researchers.

  • Day 1: Welcome, Cloud Introduction, Virtual Environments
  • Day 2: Genomics - QA/QC, Assembly & Annotation, Comparative Genomics, Genome Databases & Repositories
  • Day 3: Metagenomics - Assembly, Binning, MAGs, Classification & Annotation, Co-Occurence Analysis 
  • Day 4: Pangenomics - Diversity Analysis, Core Detection, Phylogenomic Reconstruction
  • Day 5: RDM - General Data Management, Cloud-Based RDM, FAIRDOM SEEK

Learning goals:
This Summer School covers different topics spread across individual days, where the participants will get introduced to the theoretical background followed by practical hands-on sessions that teaches how to deal with and analyze different data sets.

Prerequisites:
Participants are expected to have some basic understanding of molecular biology and sequence based analysis. As many of the hands-on sessions are based on using the Linux command line, prior experience with it is also required.

Keywords:
Cloud, Genomics, Metagenomics, Pangenomics, RDM

Tools:
Metagenomics-Toolkit, Bakta, EDGAR, Pangrowth, Corer, PLAST, SANS, mice, CloWM, FAIRDOM SEEK

Contact:
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Application:
Applicants are required to submit some details on their background and motivation as part of the registration process. As the number of participants is limited, registrations will be reviewed and participants selected on the basis of the (level of details and usefulness of the) given information.

Apply here: https://events.hifis.net/event/3921/