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Genome profiling using GenomeScope

This session is part of Biodiversity Genomics Academy 2023

Session Leader(s)

Lucía Campos-Domínguez
Kamil Jaron

Programme

  • Introduction to k-mer spectra, their interpretation and running GenomeScope (lecture by Lucía, ~30')
  • Ex. 1: Running and understanding genome models (~30')
  • Looking under the hood of the GenomeScope model (lecture by Kamil, ~20')
  • Ex. 2: Running GenomeScope-like model yourself in R; Using GenomeTelescope package (~20')
  • Discussion/Interpretation of wild k-mer spectra (~20')
    • We will bring a bunch of examples; but feel free to bring your own wild k-mer spoectrum to share with others!

Tutorial

Description

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

  1. Appreciate the art of the k-mer spectra gazing
  2. Understand the idea behind genomescope model and its assumptions
  3. Generate k-mer spectrum from a read set
  4. Run GenomeScope in command-line and web-server
  5. (if everything goes well) Create your own GenomeScope-like extended versions;

Prerequisites

  1. Basics knowledge of genomics
  2. Be ready for some non-linear regression
  3. (optional) familiarity with k-mers (Some materials developed by ourselves: https://github.com/KamilSJaron/oh-know/wiki)
  4. (optional) Read relevant sections of https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14998-3

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