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Hands-on for 'Taxonomic Profiling and Visualization of Metagenomic Data' tutorial

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The questions this addresses are:
- Which species (or genera, families, ...) are present in my sample?
- What are the different approaches and tools to get the community profile of my sample?
- How can we visualize and compare community profiles?

The objectives are:
- Explain what taxonomic assignment is
- Explain how taxonomic assignment works
- Apply Kraken and MetaPhlAn to assign taxonomic labels
- Apply Krona and Pavian to visualize results of assignment and understand the output
- Identify taxonomic classification tool that fits best depending on their data

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Keywords: metagenomics, metagenomics, taxonomic profiling

Target audience: Students

Resource type: hands-on tutorial

Authors: Bérénice Batut, Paul Zierep, Sophia Hampe

Scientific topics: Metagenomics

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