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EMBL-ABR / ELIXIR training
Rafael Jimenez (Chief Technical Officer, ELIXIR Hub, UK) and Vicky Schneider (EMBL-ABR Deputy Director) are offering two new sessions in Melbourne in December:
Open Source and Software Development Best Practice
8 December 2016, 9:30am-12:30pm
Based on content from the ELIXIR Software Development Best Practices group, this workshop aims to explore how we can harmonise our efforts in this area in Australia.
Register here.
Registries in Bioinformatics: tools, datasets, standards, events & training
9 December 2016, 9:30am-5:30pm
An introduction to existing solutions and methods for accessing these registries, this workshop will be both a forum to assess the pros and cons of each and work through them with in hands-on sessions.
Register here.
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Melbourne is hosting the Galaxy Australasia Meeting
3-9 February 2017
Keep this date in your diary.
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There is still time for all Australian life scientists and medical researchers to complete our current survey about their needs in bioinformatics. Please forward on to your colleagues using this link: https://www.embl-abr.org.au/embl-abr-survey-2016/ or complete it now using link below. It only takes 5-10 minutes!
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Best practice data life-cycle workshop series
24-28 October, Melbourne
Biologists and bioinformaticians are invited to register for this unique series of free workshops. International trainers Sandra Orchard (EMBL-EBI), Jyoti Khadake (Uni Camb), Suzanna Lewis (Berkeley Bioinformatics) and Dan Bolser (Ensembl Plants) will join our Hub experts to teach life science researchers world's best practice in curating, annotating and publishing life science data.
Faculty biographies.
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EMBL-ABR Open & Scalable Training workshop
8 December, 1-5:30pm
A session with Rafael Jimenez, ELIXIR and Vicky Schneider to consider and develop plans around:
- What are the demands in Australia for bioinformatics training?
- Are they currently being met?
- How does this compare with the rest of the world?
- How can we scale up and share training expertise?
A particular focus will be on the principles of open software and open data as applied to training, to improve scalability.
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Data chaperoning
Making data publicly available and FAIR is integral to the dissemination and reuse of research output. However, data submission to international repositories can be challenging. Identifying what metadata needs to accompany data submissions, packaging up the data and metadata, and submitting large numbers of entries is complex and sometimes difficult for individual researchers.
The EMBL-ABR: QCIF Node provides a Data Chaperoning service, to guide and support Australian researchers in the process of curating, formatting and managing research data for transfer to existing international data repositories, where it will be publicly accessible for reuse. All Australian life science and medical researchers are eligible for this service.
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Interview with EBI's Sandra Orchard
In answer to the question, What is currently missing in the field of bioinformatics AND life sciences? Sandra said: ...full global collaboration - there are still many groups doing valuable work which is being lost because the rest of the world just doesn't know it exists. Reaching out to global communities, or making use of global resources, is just so important in our field and it is money wasted if this does not happen.
Sandra is one of the international faculty joining us for our October workshops. We look forward to welcoming her to Australia.
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Data Indexes
Finding, accessing and citing data is crucial in life sciences and medical research in the era of big data. International efforts are currently aimed at providing research communities with the right tools, and EMBL-ABR has been engaging with relevant groups involved in two key projects in this area: DataMed (for biomedical data discovery) and OmicsDI (for single- and multi-omics datasets).
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Biosharing
As Australian bioinformatics grows in capacity and influence, our bioinformaticians can now participate in a global effort to create a web-based catalogue of biological data standards, databases and policies called Biosharing. Biosharing enables researchers to not only see what is already available, but to highlight their databases and standards to an international audience and link them into the Biosharing ecosystem, providing context and increased visibility for those resources. Discussions with Biosharing's Peter McQuilton continued at our ECCB booth this week and Node leads will soon be invited to participate in the initial data upload phase.
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Tools AU
EMBL-ABR is exploring ways that Australian researchers can contribute to international bioinformatics software standards and tool repositories, both to raise our profile and be part of these important community efforts. In August we launched Tools AU, an initiative designed to collate the bioinformatics tools developed in Australia and add them to the ELIXIR Tools and Data Service Registry which employs a visualisation widget developed by the ELIXIR Hub. It is a simple task to have your tools included, just email us.
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RNA-Seq workshop
14-15 November
Registrations are now open for the 1st EMBL-ABR/GOBLET workshop being held in Melbourne: RNA Seq variant analysis, led by Dr Eija Korpelainen, CSC-IT Center for Science Ltd, Espoo, Finland who will be in Australia to attend the GOBLET AGM in Brisbane.
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