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.

This training will be focused on amplicon-based taxonomic profiling (16S/18S/ITS sequencing OTU clustering). The trainer will cover:

· Overview of different tools within QIAGEN CLC Microbial Genomics Module and research areas supported

· For taxonomic profiling

o Importing data

o Utilization of metadata

o Downloading and managing references

o Walk through of OTU clustering workflow (analytical pipeline)

o Downstream processing of abundance tables

o Creating and exporting high-quality graphics