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ELIXIR node event CABANA Workshop: Managing a bioinformatics core facility

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Date: 31 March - 2 April 2020

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This knowledge exchange workshop is an opportunity for managers of bioinformatics core facilities to learn from EMBL-EBI’s service teams, from each other, and from potential users of their services. These facilities play an essential role in enabling research in the molecular life sciences. The landscape is constantly evolving as new research tools emerge, as experiments become increasingly data intensive, and as their clients – experimental researchers – become more exposed to the power of data-driven biology.

The workshops will allow participants to share experiences, discuss challenges and solutions that they face, and plan ways to cope with the ever changing demands raised by the molecular life science field. It will include sessions to learn from data providers at EMBL-EBI, hear how others have tackled common problems, and work together to design core services.

Please note this course will NOT provide bioinformatics training.

 

During this course you will learn about: 

  • Core service design
  • Technical aspects of bioinformatics core facility management
  • Funding and financing your core facility
  • Building your group
  • HPC clusters, (secure) data needs

Keywords: CABANA

Venue: Fiocruz - Palácio Itaboraí, R. Visc. of Itaboraí188

Region: Petrópolis

Country: Brazil

Postcode: 25655-031

Organizer: European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)

Target audience: This course is intended for new and experienced managers of bioinformatics core facilities, or other facilities that support their users to analyse and interpret large biomolecular data sets. This course will not provide a platform for teaching hands-on bioinformatics analysis. Prerequisites Please note this course will be taught in English, however some trainers are fluent in either Spanish/Portuguese, and can offer language support where feasible. Priority will also be given to those who have not attended a CABANA event yet. A number of travel fellowships are available for this course - early-stage researchers and researchers from underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply for CABANA travel fellowships. You can apply for travel fellowships via the course application form. Due to funding restrictions we are unable to award fellowships to those employed in Chile and Uruguay.

Capacity: 15

Event types:

  • Workshops and courses

Instructors: Cath Brooksbank, Guilherme Oliveira, Steven Newhouse, Nicole Scherer, Thiago Parente, Andrew Hercules, Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos

Scientific topics: Service management

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