Content provider: ELIXIR Luxembourg or GOBLET
This Professional Guide in the Resources for Training Trainers series introduces a structured approach to course design, highlighting the importance of articulating learning outcomes commensurate with the cognitive complexity of the target learning, prior to devising learning experiences and...
Keywords: Curriculum development, course design, learning outcomes, Bloom's Taxonomy, assessment, course evaluation, training trainers, training material
Slides for the "Practicalities of data handling" session of the "Research Data Management and Stewardship Training" held regularly by ELIXIR-Luxembourg.
Scientific topics: Data management, Data acquisition, Data security
Operations: Data handling
Keywords: data encryption, data protection, setup, checksums, Data transfer, Data storage, data organisation
Resource type: Presentation
Slides for the "Reproducible analysis" session of the "Best practices in research data management and stewardship" held regularly by ELIXIR-Luxembourg.
Scientific topics: Data architecture, analysis and design
Keywords: Workflows, Literate programming, Reproducible Science, Data analysis
Resource type: Presentation
Slides for the Data Management Plannning session of the "Research Data Manegement and Stewardship Training" held regularly by ELIXIR-Luxembourg
Keywords: Data management plan
Resource type: Presentation
Slides for the "Introduction to FAIR Principles" session of the "Research Data Manegement and Stewardship Training" held regularly by ELIXIR-Luxembourg.
Keywords: FAIR data
Resource type: Presentation
Slides for the "Data protection, working with sensitive human data in research." session of the "Research Data Management and Stewardship Training" held regularly by ELIXIR-Luxembourg.
Scientific topics: Data management, Data governance
Keywords: GDPR, data protection, sensitive data
Regina Becker (ELIXIR Luxembourg) will give an introduction into the upcoming General Data Protection Legislation (GDPR) that will come into force on 25 May 2018. The new regulation has considerable consequences for managing and storing personal data, imposing more responsibility on the data...
Keywords: GDPR
Resource type: Webinar
This Practical Guide in the Bringing Bioinformatics into the Classroom series introduces simple bioinformatics approaches for database searching and sequence analysis. A ‘mystery’ gene is used as an exemplar: we first characterise the gene, then use it to explore the impact of gene loss in...
Scientific topics: Sequence analysis
Keywords: Basic bioinformatics, Basic linux commands, Bioinformatics schools, Gene loss, Genetic mutation, Raspberry pi computers, Sequence analysis, Sequence database searching, Training materials
This Critical Guide in the Introduction to Bioinformatics series briefly outlines how to explore the neXtProt human protein database using SPARQL. While text indexation has made database contents more accessible, being able to combine search criteria for specific content permits more powerful...
Scientific topics: Database management
Keywords: Human protein database, Introduction bioinformatics, Introduction nextprot, Nextprot data model, Rdf triples, Semantic triples, Sparql queries, Sparql syntax, Training material
This Practical Guide in the Bringing Bioinformatics into the Classroom series outlines a number of basic bioinformatics approaches that can be used to understand the molecular basis of genetic diseases. A rare variation in the insulin gene is discussed, and the impact of the variation on the gene...
Keywords: Basic bioinformatics, Bioinformatics schools, Gene finding, Genetic mutation, Insulin structure, Sequence alignment, Sequence database searching, Training material
This Critical Guide in the Introduction to Bioinformatics series provides a brief outline of the Protein Data Bank – the PDB – the world’s primary repository of biological macromolecular structures. The rationale for creating the resource and the kinds of information it provides are discussed,...
Scientific topics: Database management
Keywords: Introduction bioinformatics, Introduction pdb, Protein structure analysis, Protein structure databases, Protein structures
This Critical Guide in the Introduction to Bioinformatics series provides an introduction to the InterPro database, the largest, most comprehensive, integrated protein family database in the world. The rationale for creating the resource, the nature of its contributing databases and the kinds of...
Scientific topics: Database management
Keywords: Introduction bioinformatics, Introduction interpro, Protein family classification, Protein family databases, Protein family hierarchies, Protein function annotation, Protein sequence analysis
This Critical Guide briefly presents the need for biological databases and for a standard format for storing and organising biological data. Web-based interfaces have made databases more user-friendly, but knowledge of the underlying file format offers a deeper understanding of how to navigate...
Scientific topics: Database management
Keywords: Flat file databases, Flat files, Introduction bioinformatics, Uniprotkb flat file format
This Critical Guide in the Introduction to Bioinformatics series provides a brief outline of the UniProt protein sequence database, with a particular focus on the UniProt Knowledgebase – UniProtKB. The rationale for creating the resource, its contributing databases and the kinds of information...
Scientific topics: Database management
Keywords: Introduction bioinformatics, Introduction uniprot, Protein sequence databases, Uniprot knowledgebase
This Critical Guide in the Introduction to Bioinformatics series provides an overview of the BLAST similarity search tool, briefly examining the underlying algorithm and its rise to popularity. Several Web-based and stand-alone implementations are reviewed, and key features of typical search...
Keywords: Introduction bioinformatics, Introduction blast, Sequence database searching, Sequence similarity searching
This Critical Guide in the Introduction to Bioinformatics series briefly introduces the Unix Operating System, and provides a subset of some of the most helpful and commonly used commands, including those that allow various types of search, navigation and file manipulation. Several keystroke...
Keywords: Command line, Introduction bioinformatics, Introduction unix, Unix commands, Unix operating system
If you work in the life sciences, you may find that you’re spending less time doing experiments and more time analysing huge amounts of biological data. Train online is here to help you do this quickly and efficiently.
Scientific topics: Bioinformatics
Keywords: Bioinformatics, Chemical biology, Cross domain, Dna rna, Gene expression, Literature, Ontologies, Proteins, Structures, Systems
Claire O'Donovan, leader of the Protein Function Content team at EMBL-EBI, gives an introduction into biocuration and talks about what it is like to work as a biocurator and the skill sets you need.
This webinar was recorded on 2 March 2016 and is best viewed using Google Chrome and in...
Keywords: Biocuration
These Online Educational Resources (OERs) cover a variety of topics related to data science and are intended for use in courses, programs, workshops, and related activities. Modules relevant to biocuration:BDK05 Basic Research Data Standards...
Scientific topics: Ontology
Keywords: Biocuration, Curation, Identifiers, Ontology, Standards
EMBER is an online practical designed to provide a brief, hands-on introduction to a range of bioinformatics databases and tools on the Web. It comprises basic and slightly more advanced 'chapters', and a number of case studies. Chapters include reflective questions, to stimulate critical...
Developed in collaboration with the Royal Society, this material provides a short interactive introduction to bioinformatics, and includes a bioinformatics 'game' that simulates database searching and protein sequence analysis, with a focus on sickle cell anaemia. This is a fun activity with...
This tool allows trainers to evaluate Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) they've written to accompany their training resources. The tool is able to assess sets of ILOs against representative verbs for each level of Bloom's Taxonomy, verifying both the Bloom's level to which they correspond and the...
Five PowerPoint presentations and an Excel worksheet for a Train the Trainer course developed by Chris Taylor (with contributions from Emily Angiolini, Jamie Edwards and Paul Yorke) while at the Earlham Institute working for the National Institutes of Science's Bioinformatics and Biomathematics...
Keywords: Course development, Pedagogy, Trainer skills
A fully contained course for GGPLOT2
"Evolution Academy" videos (http://post.queensu.ca/~forsdyke/videolectures.htm). The latter are a course of 54 short (15 min) videos that follow the style of Salman Khan's "Khan Academy," and are addressed primarily to High School and beginning College students. There are also several longer (1...
Scientific topics: Evolutionary biology
Keywords: Biohistory, Evolutionary bioinformatics, Evolutionary biology
Introduction to BioJS a standard for visualisation of biological data in JavaScript
Keywords: Biojs, Javascript, Software, Standards
Ensembl is a joint project between European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to provide a source of thorough, integrated annotation data across a variety of genomes.
This one-day workshop not only offers participants the opportunity to glean background...
What is the course about?
Signalling pathways and networks are very important to regulate and control cellular processes, cell fate, and their malfunctions often lead to diseases, such as cancer or diabetes. This course provides an introductory overview of the most useful resources and tools to...
Keywords: Signalling
This workshop will guide novice users through the process of analysing interaction networks – that allow biologists to map and characterise signalling pathways and to predict the function of unknown proteins. It will use practical examples in the popular open-source tool Cytoscape and the...
Keywords: Cytoscape
The aim of this course is to teach you how to perform basic statistical analysis using R. First we review the foundations (sampling theory, discrete and continuous distributions), then we focus on classical hypothesis testing. This course will improve your generic statistics knowledge....
Scientific topics: Statistics and probability
Keywords: Biostatistics, R