BioMedBridges Training Completing the circle between developers and users BioMedBridges AGM 12 March 2014, Florence Cath Brooksbank & Tom Hancocks
Building bridges through training! Cath Brooksbank! Tom Hancocks
Why is bioinformatics training important?! Data analysis is now the major bottleneck to research in the molecular life sciences! Many biomedical professionals feel under-qualified to make the most of publicly available data! There are an estimated 3 million life scientists in Europe alone; >20 million healthcare professionals! Potentially all of them are producers or consumers of data managed by Europe s biomedical research infrastructures
What is unique about BMB training?! Laying the foundation for training across the research infrastructures! Supporting the development of interoperable data resources and tools for biomedical research infrastructure in Europe! Delivered by the BMB project partners for the research infrastructures! Triggering the exchange of best practice, developing interoperability, and developing training for the next generation of researchers
Rationale: what drives the work?! Internal training of project partners! Sharing knowledge and skills within the project! Creating reusable training resources for research infrastructures to use in future! Enabling the broader research community to benefit from the outputs of BioMedBridges! Academic, industry, healthcare researchers! Completing the circle through user experience! By observing our users interacting with BioMedBridges tools we can develop them to better meet users needs Funded by FP7 Capacities Specific Programme, grant agreement no. 284209
Practical solutions with ontologies BioMedBridges Knowledge Exchange Workshop: Practical Solutions with Ontologies March 2013 Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK!!
Computational high-throughput screening!
Completing the circle Developers BMB User experience Training Users BMS RIs Broader research community Funded by FP7 Capacities Specific Programme, grant agreement no. 284209
Training approach Participants Developers Users Trainers Artefacts Living documentation Slides Exercises Glossary Dissemination Reusable modules Online courses From a one-off event to a scalable, sustainable solution that can be used by operators of research infrastructure to benefit their users
Living documentation Contacts Interaction Class-sourced Discussion Advice Papers Websites FAQ Top Tips Other Programme Experience
Other reusable artefacts www.biomedbridges.eu/courses
What s in it for?! The BMB partners! Opportunity to join up disparate parts of the project! Interaction with technical experts both within and beyond the project! The Research Infrastructures! Openly available training resources that can be readily modified in tandem with the evolution of their infrastructure! The broader scientific community! Access to end-user training and materials for reinforcing knowledge gained after formal learning has taken place! Opportunities to influence the future development of the BioMedBridges services
BMS RIs connected
Future plans! Building data-related competency across all the biomedical research infrastructures! Data-related training that YOU need:! Complete the BioMedBridges training needs survey:! https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ BMB_Training_Needs! More training coming soon: http://www.biomedbridges.eu/courses
Acknowledgements BMB coordination! Steffi Suhr! Janet Thornton Domain experts! Parkinson Team, EMBL-EBI! James Malone! Simon Jupp! Overington Team, EMBL-EBI Participants! Trainers lots of them! Trainees even more of them! Robert Stevens, U. Manchester! EU-OpenScreen / U. Umeå! Per-Anders Enquist! Michael Eloffson! Anne Hersey! George Papadatos! Jon Chambers Training experts! Tom Hancocks! EMBL-EBI Training Team! EMBL Course and Conference office
Thank you for your attention The BioMedBridges project is funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme within Research Infrastructures of the FP7 Capacities Specific Programme, grant agreement number 284209.