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. 2017 Jul 3:6:ELIXIR-1040.
doi: 10.12688/f1000research.11718.1. eCollection 2017.

Developing a strategy for computational lab skills training through Software and Data Carpentry: Experiences from the ELIXIR Pilot action

Aleksandra Pawlik  1 , Celia W G van Gelder  2 , Aleksandra Nenadic  3 , Patricia M Palagi  4 , Eija Korpelainen  5 , Philip Lijnzaad  6 , Diana Marek  4 , Susanna-Assunta Sansone  7 , John Hancock  8 , Carole Goble  3
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Developing a strategy for computational lab skills training through Software and Data Carpentry: Experiences from the ELIXIR Pilot action

Aleksandra Pawlik et al. F1000Res. .

Abstract

Quality training in computational skills for life scientists is essential to allow them to deliver robust, reproducible and cutting-edge research. A pan-European bioinformatics programme, ELIXIR, has adopted a well-established and progressive programme of computational lab and data skills training from Software and Data Carpentry, aimed at increasing the number of skilled life scientists and building a sustainable training community in this field. This article describes the Pilot action, which introduced the Carpentry training model to the ELIXIR community.

Keywords: IT and computational skills; Life sciences; bioinformatics; capacity building; data analysis; data carpentry; software carpentry; training.

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Competing interests: No competing interests were disclosed.

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Figure 1.. Instructors trained per Node.
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