MGnify is EMBL-EBI’s resource for analysing, discovering and exploring microbiome sequence data. It brings together public datasets and user-submitted data, with analysis workflows suited to different kinds of input. The website allows for browsing studies, samples, sequencing runs, analyses and their results, while downloads and the API support further exploration.

Across this webinar series, we will move from broad community profiles towards increasingly detailed views of microbial sequence data. We will begin with raw metagenomic reads and assemblies, then explore metagenome-assembled genomes and MGnify genome catalogues. We will then continue with a session on MGnify Proteins that will illustrate the large protein sequence space derived from assemblies, and conclude with a session on amplicon sequencing, introducing targeted marker-gene profiling as another way to ask who is present in a community. 

We recommend following the programme in sequence, as each event builds on the one before it. However, it’s important to remember that each data type answers different biological questions.

The webinars making up this series are listed below. Follow the links to find out more about each webinar. You will need to register for each webinar you would like to attend. Recordings will be made openly available for all webinars on their individual pages.