This training is a prerequisite introduction to a series of trainings on the analysis of NGS data for different applications: 'Hands-on introduction to NGS variant analysis', 'RNA-Seq analysis for differential expression', and 'Hands-on introduction to ChIP-Seq analysis'. If you want to follow one of these trainings, you have to follow this introduction. The training will give you all the background that you will need in the later NGS trainings.