Written or oral exam

This course provides an in-depth introduction to microbiome analysis. Topics
include: Sequencing technologies, Community profiling using the SSU rRNA
gene, Community profiling using shotgun sequencing, Alignment-free and
alignment-based taxonomic profiling, Functional analysis and profiling, Sample
comparison and time-series analysis.

The students are familiar with recent bioinformatics findings on microbiome
analysis. They can formulate the challenges of microbiome analysis for bioinformatics.
They know algorithms for taxonomic and functional analysis of
microbiome sequencing data, statistical methods for comparison and methods
for community profiling using 16S sequences. Students can analyse microbiome
sequencing data and perform profiling and comparison. They are aware of
both the possibilities and the limitations of different methods in this subfield
of bioinformatics. They are able to analyse problems on a scientific level and
summarise them in writing. In particular, a high degree of intrinsic motivation
and personal responsibility is encouraged.

Lecture notes and scientific publications