The GOBLET training portal: a global repository of bioinformatics training materials, courses and trainers

Manuel Corpas; Rafael C Jimenez; Erik Bongcam-Rudloff; Aidan Budd; Michelle D Brazas; Pedro L Fernandes; Bruno Gaeta; Celia van Gelder; Eija Korpelainen; Fran Lewitter; Annette McGrath; Daniel MacLean; Patricia M Palagi; Kristian Rother; Jan Taylor; Allegra Via; Mick Watson; Maria Victoria Schneider; Teresa K Attwood

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu601

The GOBLET training portal: a global repository of bioinformatics training materials, courses and trainers

Bioinformatics. 2015 Jan 1;31(1):140-2. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu601. Epub 2014 Sep 4.

Authors

Manuel Corpas¹, Rafael C Jimenez¹, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff¹, Aidan Budd¹, Michelle D Brazas¹, Pedro L Fernandes¹, Bruno Gaeta¹, Celia van Gelder², Eija Korpelainen¹, Fran Lewitter¹, Annette McGrath¹, Daniel MacLean¹, Patricia M Palagi¹, Kristian Rother¹, Jan Taylor¹, Allegra Via¹, Mick Watson¹, Maria Victoria Schneider¹, Teresa K Attwood¹

Affiliations

¹ The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, ELIXIR, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK, The Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Canada, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Bioinformatics, Radboud Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd., Espoo, Finland, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, CSIRO, Bioinformatics Core, Canberra, Australia, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 1 Rue Michel Servet, Genève, Switzerland, Academis, Illstrasse 12, 12161 Berlin, Germany, The Nowgen Centre, 29 Grafton Street, Manchester, UK, Department of Physics, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, The Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, UK and The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
² The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, ELIXIR, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK, The Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Canada, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Bioinformatics, Radboud Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd., Espoo, Finland, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, CSIRO, Bioinformatics Core, Canberra, Australia, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 1 Rue Michel Servet, Genève, Switzerland, Academis, Illstrasse 12, 12161 Berlin, Germany, The Nowgen Centre, 29 Grafton Street, Manchester, UK, Department of Physics, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, The Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, UK and The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK The Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, ELIXIR, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK, The Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Canada, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Bioinformatics, Radboud Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd., Espoo, Finland, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, CSIRO, Bioinformatics Core, Canberra, Australia, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 1 Rue Michel Servet, Genève, Switzerland, Academis, Illstrasse 12, 12161 Berlin, Germany, The Nowgen Centre, 29 Grafton Street, Manchester, UK, Department of Physics, Sapienza University

Abstract

Summary: Rapid technological advances have led to an explosion of biomedical data in recent years. The pace of change has inspired new collaborative approaches for sharing materials and resources to help train life scientists both in the use of cutting-edge bioinformatics tools and databases and in how to analyse and interpret large datasets. A prototype platform for sharing such training resources was recently created by the Bioinformatics Training Network (BTN). Building on this work, we have created a centralized portal for sharing training materials and courses, including a catalogue of trainers and course organizers, and an announcement service for training events. For course organizers, the portal provides opportunities to promote their training events; for trainers, the portal offers an environment for sharing materials, for gaining visibility for their work and promoting their skills; for trainees, it offers a convenient one-stop shop for finding suitable training resources and identifying relevant training events and activities locally and worldwide.

Availability and implementation: http://mygoblet.org/training-portal.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Computational Biology / education*
Curriculum*
Database Management Systems*
Humans
Programming Languages
Research Personnel / education*
Software Design
Teaching*

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding