Toward Fully Reproducible Microbiome Multi-Omics Bioinformatics with QIIME2

About this Class

The QIIME platform, including QIIME 1 and QIIME 2, has been extensively applied in microbiome research, repeatedly making analyses that were once challenging or impossible into routine tasks. While QIIME began as a marker gene (e.g., 16S, ITS, ...) analysis platform, microbiome research is transitioning toward multi-omics. With funding from NCI’s Informatics Technology for Cancer Research program, QIIME 2 is transitioning to become a microbiome, multi-omics analysis platform.

In this talk, Dr. Greg Caporaso will introduce QIIME 2, including current work on expanding beyond marker gene analysis. He will also discuss QIIME 2’s retrospective data provenance tracking system, and how it can help you to get help with your bioinformatics analyses and ensure that your work is reproducible.

Dr. Caporaso will describe:

• QIIME 2, including current work on expanding beyond marker gene analysis.
• QIIME 2’s retrospective data provenance tracking system and how it can help you to get help with your bioinformatics analyses and ensure that your work is reproducible.
• the ways that you can use QIIME 2, including through the Galaxy graphical user interface, a command line interface, or a Python 3 API.
• QIIME 2’s extensive educational and technical support resources so that you can start learning QIIME 2 as quickly as possible.