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Exercises

Each exercise is a step-by-step guide with explanations, Hands-on boxes with the steps to run in Galaxy, and Questions to answer as you go. Keep a notebook (paper or digital) with your answers. The answers are discussed in class.

Exercise Topics Platform Time
NGS preprocessing and quality control read quality control with FastQC, adapter removal with Cutadapt, quality trimming with Trimmomatic, paired-end reads, Illumina vs 454 vs Ion Torrent Galaxy Europe about 3 hours

The data for each exercise are described on the Data page.