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Towards an open, collaborative, reusable framework for sharing hands-on bioinformatics training workshops

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 widespr...

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Autores principales: Watson-Haigh, Nathan S, Revote, Jerico, Suchecki, Radosław, Tyagi, Sonika, Corley, Susan M, Shang, Catherine A, McGrath, Annette
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5444239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26984618
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbw013
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Sumario: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.