title: Towards an open, collaborative, reusable framework for sharing hands-on bioinformatics training workshops.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG), University of Adelaide, PMB 1, Glen Osmond, Australia.
authors.forename: Nathan S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Watson-Haigh
authors.affiliation: Monash Bioinformatics Platform, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: Jerico
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Revote
authors.affiliation: Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG), University of Adelaide, PMB 1, Glen Osmond, Australia.
authors.forename: Radoslaw
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Suchecki
authors.affiliation: Oncogenomics Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Herston, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
authors.forename: Sonika
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tyagi
authors.affiliation: Systems Biology Initiative, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, UNSW Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: Susan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Corley
authors.affiliation: School of Biomedical Sciences and the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
authors.forename: Catherine A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Shang
authors.affiliation: 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, 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.
authors.forename: Annette
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McGrath
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans
keywords: bioinformatics; training; workshop; reusable; collaborative; open access