Towards an open, collaborative, reusable framework for sharing hands-on bioinformatics training workshops.

Watson-Haigh NS., Revote J., Suchecki R., Tyagi S., Corley SM., Shang CA., McGrath A.

There is a clear demand for hands-on bioinformatics training. The development of bioinformatics workshop content is both time-consuming and expensive. Therefore, enabling trainers to develop bioinformatics workshops in a way that facilitates reuse is becoming increasingly important. The most widespread practice for sharing workshop content is through making PDF, PowerPoint and Word documents available online. While this effort is to be commended, such content is usually not so easy to reuse or repurpose and does not capture all the information required for a third party to rerun a workshop. We present an open, collaborative framework for developing and maintaining, reusable and shareable hands-on training workshop content.

DOI

10.1093/bib/bbw013

Type

Journal article

Journal

Brief bioinform

Publication Date

01/03/2017

Volume

18

Pages

348 - 355

Keywords

bioinformatics; training; workshop; reusable; collaborative; open access, Computational Biology, Cooperative Behavior, Humans

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