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5 years ago

ELIXIR-UK role in bioinformatics training at the national level and across ELIXIR [version 1; referees: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

M. Thurston, G. Rustici, T.K. Attwood, L. Larcombe, M.R. Viant, W.B. Dunn, L.J. Bellis, A. Nenadic, J.M. Hancock, C.P. Ponting, S-A Sansone, N. Beard, R. Hendricusdottir, C.A. Goble, C. Orengo, F. Bacall, C.L. Winder, B. Overduin
ELIXIR-UK is the UK node of ELIXIR, the European infrastructure for life science data. Since its foundation in 2014, ELIXIR-UK has played a leading role in training both within the UK and in the ELIXIR Training Platform, which coordinates and delivers training across all ELIXIR members. ELIXIR-UK contributes to the Training Platform’s coordination and supports the development of training to address key skill gaps amongst UK scientists. As part of this work it acts as a conduit for nationally-important bioinformatics training resources to promote their activities to the ELIXIR community. ELIXIR-UK also leads ELIXIR’s flagship Training Portal, TeSS, which collects information about a diverse range of training and makes it easily accessible to the community. ELIXIR-UK also works with others to provide key digital skills training, partnering with the Software Sustainability Institute to provide Software Carpentry training to the ELIXIR community and to establish the Data Carpentry initiative, and taking a lead role amongst national stakeholders to deliver the StaTS project – a coordinated effort to drive engagement with training in statistics.

Publisher URL: https://f1000research.com/articles/6-952/v1

DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.11837.1

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