Visualising genome assembly cobionts by running BlobToolKit locally

This session is part of Biodiversity Genomics Academy 2023

Session Leader(s)

Sujai Kumar
Senior Bioinformatician and Training Coordinator

Rich Challis
Senior Bioinformatician

Tree of Life Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Description

By the end of this session you will be able to:

1. Install BlobToolKit (BTK) on your own system
2. Starting from an assembly fasta file and a bam file with reads mapped to the assembly, you will be able to create a blobdir and view the BTK plot

Session Materials

Prerequisites

1. Familiarity with linux command line basics (cd, mv, rm, wget, curl etc)
2. Understanding of genome assembly concepts such as DNA sequencing, and how short and long sequenced reads are assembled into contigs, scaffolds, and chromosomes

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