Checking for cobionts in public genomes using BlobToolKit

This session is part of Biodiversity Genomics Academy 2023

Session Leader(s)

Sujai Kumar
Senior Bioinformatician and Training Coordinator
Tree of Life Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Description

By the end of this session you will be able to:

1. Navigate the public BlobToolKit (BTK) viewer
2. Find BTK plots for your organism(s) of interest
3. See if there are cobionts (contaminants, symbionts, parasites, etc) present in the BTK plots of those genome assemblies

Prerequisites

1. Understanding the terms genome assembly, reads, contigs

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