QIAGEN CLC Microbial Genomics Module provides tools and workflows for a broad range of bioinformatics applications, including microbiome analysis, isolate characterization, functional metagenomics and antimicrobial resistance characterization. The module supports the analysis of bacterial, viral and eukaryotic (fungal) genomes and metagenomes.

Topics covered in this 90-minute training include:
• Overview of different tools within QIAGEN CLC Microbial Genomics Module, their application and the research areas supported
• Focused review of whole shotgun taxonomic profiling
o Importing data
o Utilization of metadata
o Downloading and managing references
o Review the whole shotgun workflow
- Data QC and taxonomic profiling
o Downstream processing of abundance tables
o Creating and exporting high-quality graphics