Join Dr. Vinayak Kapatral and learn how to bridge the gap between traditional short amplicons and the high resolution data of full-length 16S reads.

February 12th, 2026 at 2:00 PM (CT) / 3:00 PM (ET) / 12:00 PM (PT)

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In this webinar you will learn about:

• Amplicon sequencing strategies

  • Targeted Illumina based V1-V3 or V3-V4 short amplicons

  • Full length Pacbio/Oxford Nanopore based amplicons

  • Libraries, kits, reactions, read length, and coverage considerations

• Utilizing denoising techniques to move from OTUs to ASVs

• Best practices for species-level identification and Phylogenetic Analysis

• Principal Coordinates Analysis (MDS, NMDS, Bray-Curtis, UniFrac, Jaccard)

• Richness Estimates (Chao1, ACE, Shannon, Simpson etc)

• Biomarker discover using Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and LEfSe

• ERGO’s integrated Metagenome Analysis and Visualization Tools

• and much more!