Session 3: Read mapping part 1

The third session deals with mapping of metagenomics read data to reference genomes (or metagenomes), including:

• a brief reminder, why we do this

• a touch of bioinformatics for sequence alignment

• a look at the output (alignments) created by read mappers

• what we can do with this output

The recording is available on the University of Amsterdam’s media site. You can find the slides here: slides session 3.

Here’s a link to a really good explanation of the bioinformatics involved in our mapper: presentation