Bioinformatics workflows

The declining cost and increasing accessibility of next-generation sequencing (NGS) have led to the permeation of these techniques throughout the life sciences. The sequencing data generated from many of these studies requires bioinformatic analysis to interpret. However, truly insightful analysis requires multiple processes that span several disciplines, from statistics and mathematics to biology, to conduct functions such as quality control, sequence alignment and multiomic integration.

These complex and often exacting requirements can make bioinformatics workflows for NGS a daunting prospect. This In Focus will address these complexities and how to resolve the web of scripts and command-line invocations that can arise from NGS data analyses pipelines.

You will learn:

• The challenges of NGS bioinformatic analysis
• Techniques for bioinformatics workflow management
• How to maximize your output from NGS data analysis