.. _taxonomy1: ========================== Session 4: Taxonomy part 1 ========================== In this fourth session, we look at different approaches to profile microbiomes in terms of the present taxa, using metagenomics read data. It comprises these topics: * an introduction into the aims and particular requirements * a touch of taxonomy * a brief reminder of mapping of metagenomics reads * a look at non-alignment based profilers * how taxonomic profilers are benchmarked * 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 4 <_static/220309_Taxonomy.pdf>`.