Precourse preparations

Prerequisites

Knowledge / competencies

Participants should have knowledge in NGS techniques, quality control and alignment to a reference genome, and detection of genomic variants from read alignment to variant calling and annotation.

The competences and knowledge levels required correspond to those taught in courses such as: NGS - Quality Control, Alignment, Visualisation and NGS-Genome Variant Analysis.

Participants should have a basic understanding of working with command line tools on Unix-based systems. You can test your skills with Unix with the quiz here. If you do not feel comfortable with UNIX commands, please take our Unix fundamentals e-learning module.

Technical

Participants should have their own computer with a browser installed (e.g. chrome, firefox, edge), and can access http websites. Test it here: http://httpforever.com/.

Communication platform

This course will use Zulip for communication and questions during the course. You will receive an invitation to join our Zulip workspace before the course starts. Zulip is a chat platform that organizes discussions by topics - no prior experience needed, and it works in any web browser. Zulip can be accessed also via desktop/mobile apps.