I have been curious about the title of a session from London Calling 2024: “Empowering scientists with data literacy skills in long-read genomic sequencing.” Katharina Wolff from TU Braunschweig in Germany was the presenter and explained the wide variety of plants and potential for genome sequencing. Wolf and the team wanted to enable students to sequence and analyze data. The course structure takes participants “from plant to publication.” The workflow connects wet lab and dry lab sessions. The wet labs extract plant DNA, quantify it, and prepare libraries. The data analysis steps include computational biology, base calling, analysis… and data management. Wolff and the team encouraged students to explore their research questions. Students obtained hands-on experience that included wet lab and computation biology concepts. Students had ownership of their projects and produced presentations and reports improved through peer review. All teaching materials are available on GitHub and the team’s publication. I want to learn more about this course’s paper writing and peer review activities.
