NGS Academy for the Africa CDC Pathogen Genomics Initiative

Next Generation Sequencing

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The NGS Academy forms part of the Africa CDC Pathogen Genomics Initiative (PGI). This initiative is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Our training initiatives are carried out in partnership with the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM).

Course overview:

The programme will include theoretical and practical information on NGS systems currently available and those on the near horizon. Technologies will be chosen from short- and long-read sequencing platforms including:

  1. 1. PacBio
  2. 2. Illumina Miseq/HiSeq/Novaseq
  3. 3. Oxford Nanopore MinION

Intended audience:

Applicants should be postdoctoral scientists, senior PhD students, or junior faculty members actively engaged in or soon to commence research involving next generation sequencing instrumentation.

Prerequisites:

Please note: For the data analysis components of the course, applicants will require a working knowledge of the UNIX/Linux operating system. This may be obtained through various methods and is essential to fully benefit from the course. There are numerous online introductory tutorials to the UNIX/Linux operating system and command line

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