Galaxy is an open software framework that enables researchers without informatics expertise to perform computational biology analyses through the web. This training aims to familiarise you with the Galaxy user interface. It will teach you how to perform basic tasks such as importing data, running tools, working with histories, creating workflows, and sharing your work.

The course is aimed at biologists and other life-science researchers who would like an introduction to Galaxy and its workflows. No prior bioinformatics knowledge is required.

This short workshop gets you started with Git from zero and is intended for life scientists who have an existing project with code (in any language) or text files that need track of changes.

This workshop is organised by ELIXIR Belgium; the trainer is Paula Andrea Martinez.

More information and registration on this link.

This one-day workshop will introduce you to the Galaxy user interface using NGS data. You will learn how to import data, run tools, work with histories, and create workflows. After this short course, you will be able to perform computational biology analyses through the web.

This workshop is organised by ELIXIR Belgium; the trainer for the workshop is Paula Andrea Martinez. Click here for more information and registration.

Two-day workshop (24-25 October 2018) on good development practices that encourage efficient and reproducible research computing. This workshop is aimed at researchers in life -sciences who need to analyse data, even if not full time. The target participant has the need to read and use Python scripts, the interest to understand better how the code works and the will to pursue efficiency.  

The goal of this two-days workshop is to initiate wet-lab scientists to reproducible data analysis with R. The “Data organisation in spreadsheets” section will focus on tabular data structure and management. We will then introduce OpenRefine and how it can be used for initial data exploration and cleaning.

The 4 Open Software Recommendations are designed around Open Science values, and provide practical suggestions that contribute to making research software and its source code more discoverable, reusable and transparent. These recommendations recognise that not everyone can or want to make their software open from day one, but encourage to learn from the recommendations and adapt them as needed. The instructors for this workshop are Mateusz Kuzak and Toby Hodges). Info and registration.

This Data Carpentry Workshop, with a special focus on sequence handling for variant calling using the cloud resources, will introduce you to Genomic concepts and scripting. For those unfamiliar with the concept, Data Carpentry aims at systematically delivering workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. The instructors are Mateusz Kuzak, Toby Hodges and Christof De Bo. Info and registration.

This half-day workshop will take you through the basic use of Git and GitHub. Git is a free and open source distributed version-control system designed to maintain code, track changes, recover old versions and collaborate with other developers. This course is open to everyone for free, organized by ELIXIR Belgium. More info.

This course is organised over two full days (22 and 26 June 2020). With the help of plenty hands-on exercises, you will get introduced into the different types of variables in python, the peculiarities of python and good programming habits. This course will provide you an ideal stepping stone for further developing programming skills in Python. More info and registration.

Organized by ELIXIR Belgium and the VIB Bioinformatics Core.