Short Variant Discovery

Course Overview

Prerequisites: This course requires access to the Texas A&M HPRC Grace cluster.

• Students who complete this course will earn 5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs).
• Please direct questions about the course to Help@hprc.tamu.edu . For questions related to the registration process, please contact TEES EDGE.

Learning Outcome

This online, asynchronous course uses example data to work through a typical short variant discovery pipeline, from library QC and trimming, to mapping reads to a reference genome, and calling variants with the GATK software suite.

Target Audience

Any student wanting to learn the bioinformatic methods used to identify small single nucleotide and structural variants in sequenced NGS libraries.

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