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Identification of the micro-organisms in a beer using Nanopore sequencing

Abstract

What is a microbiome? It is a collection of small living creatures.

About This Material

This is a Hands-on Tutorial from the GTN which is usable either for individual self-study, or as a teaching material in a classroom.

Questions this will address

  • How can yeast strains in a beer sample be identified?
  • How can we process metagenomic data sequenced using Nanopore?

Learning Objectives

  • Inspect metagenomics data
  • Run metagenomics tools
  • Identify yeast species contained in a sequenced beer sample using DNA
  • Visualize the microbiome community of a beer sample

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Keywords: Microbiome, beer, citizen science, metagenomics, microgalaxy, nanopore

Target audience: Students

Resource type: e-learning

Version: 4

Status: Active

Prerequisites:

Introduction to Galaxy Analyses

Learning objectives:

  • Inspect metagenomics data
  • Run metagenomics tools
  • Identify yeast species contained in a sequenced beer sample using DNA
  • Visualize the microbiome community of a beer sample

Date modified: 2024-06-14

Date published: 2022-09-29

Authors: Bérénice Batut, Polina Polunina, Siyu Chen, Teresa Müller

Scientific topics: Metagenomics, Microbial ecology, Taxonomy, Sequence analysis


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