The Swedish Metabarcoding Network (SMN) brings together researchers, data managers and practitioners working with metabarcoding and environmental DNA. Our goal is to promote collaboration, standardization and open data for biodiversity research.

SMN is funded by SciLifeLab Research Data Community Project Funding.

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Exploring eDNA in SBDI

▣Tuesday, 18 August 2026◷10:30–12:00

This workshop will demonstrate how environmental DNA (eDNA) / metabarcoding data can be accessed, processed, and analyzed within the Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure (SBDI). We will show how to download eDNA data, use our R package to unpack, merge, and aggregate datasets, and then explore biodiversity patterns across environments in R. The session will also introduce SBDI resources for data submission, processing, and integration with GBIF.

Limited to 30 participants.
We will contact you at the email address you provide to confirm your place.

Organizer & contactMaria Pragermaria.prager@bioenv.gu.se

Get started with nf-core/ampliseq for ASV denoising and annotation

▣Tuesday, 18 August 2026◷13:00–14:30

Using your own raw sequences and the compute resources available to you, this workshop will help you get started using the Nextflow pipeline nf-core/ampliseq that does DADA2 denoising and taxonomic annotation of amplicon reads.

Limited to 15 participants.
Priority will be given to participants bringing their own metabarcoding dataset. If space remains, participants without their own dataset can work with a provided test dataset. We will contact you to confirm your place.

Organizer & contactDaniel Lundindaniel.lundin@lnu.se

Before you register

Both workshops are hands-on sessions held during BioSystEU 2026. Make sure you are also registered for the conference in order to participate.

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