UCY students Emmanouil Meramveliotakis and Konstantinos Ntatsopoulos visit Alfried´s Vogler Lab (NHM, London) for training in handling, assembly and annotation of genomic datasets
The main goals of this two-week exchange visit were to: (1) strengthen the collaboration between the two partners through joint PhD supervision of two UCY students and (2) enhance the theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience of both UCY PhD students with the handling, assembly and annotation of genomic datasets.
The first week of the visit was dedicated to an in-depth understanding of the data structure generated from Whole-Genome Shotgun (WGS) sequencing and the available pipelines to assemble and annotate draft genomes of non-model organisms. During the second week of the visit, the focus was on mining mitogenomes from WGS sequencing data, using in-house pipelines to correctly assemble and annotate them, and analysing them in the context of phylogenomic studies.
The first week of the visit was dedicated to an in-depth understanding of the data structure generated from Whole-Genome Shotgun (WGS) sequencing and the available pipelines to assemble and annotate draft genomes of non-model organisms. During the second week of the visit, the focus was on mining mitogenomes from WGS sequencing data, using in-house pipelines to correctly assemble and annotate them, and analysing them in the context of phylogenomic studies.
