.. _mapping1: ============================== 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: :download:`slides session 3 <_static/220302_Mapping1.pdf>`. Here's a link to a really good explanation of the bioinformatics involved in our mapper: `presentation `_