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Cath Brooksbank
Head of Outreach and Training
EMBL-EBI
Train onlineFree online courses from EMBL-EBI
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EMBL-EBI’s Mission
• To provide freely available data and bioinformatics services to all facets of the scientific community in ways that promote scientific progress
• To contribute to the advancement of biology through basic investigator-driven research in bioinformatics
• To provide advanced bioinformatics training to scientists at all levels, from PhD students to independent investigators
• To help disseminate cutting-edge technologies to industry
• To coordinate biological data provision across Europe
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Training at EMBL-EBI• Hands-on courses for experimental researchers• Selection of applicants to address escalating demand• Immersive philosophy in which networking among trainers
and delegates is strongly encouraged• Programme reflects the breadth of our services and is an
integral part of EMBL’s course and conference programme
• We welcome external experts as trainers and guest lecturers
• www.ebi.ac.uk/training/handson/
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Training on tour: the roadshow
• Mobile training programme offering hands-on training worldwide
• Especially suitable for new users• Some roadshows funded by
external grants, others by the host
• Apply to host a roadshow: • www.ebi.ac.uk/training/
roadshow/
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Training on demand: Train online
• Free, flexible online courses on the EMBL-EBI's most widely used data resources, created for life scientists by experts in our service teams
• No previous experience of bioinformatics necessary to benefit from the courses
• We want to help you to be highly competent users of our data resources; we are not trying to train you to become bioinformaticians!
• You can repeat the courses as many times as you like, or just complete part of a course to brush up on how to perform a specific task
• www.ebi.ac.uk/training/online
How to find Train online from EBI home
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/online
Select ‘Train online’ from the Training menu
The welcome page
Register here if you want to do
quizzes and receive updates
Full list of courses
Courses by category
Choosing a course from ‘gene expression’
Let’s take a look at a course on the Gene
Expression Atlas
This course will take ~2 hours if you complete it in
one session
Course description page
Let’s assume that you’ve already done
the intro course
Check that the course will meet your needs
Right, let’s start…
Course structure
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Show and tell
Learning objectives
What have I learned?
Apply learning to real use cases
Practice by myself
Have I understood the key concepts?
Learn more
Learning objectives
Work your way through the course
from here
The first page tells you what you should be
able to do once you’ve completed the course
…or jump straight to the section that you
need from the navigation bar
Tutorials
The steps box tells you what to do next
Glossary terms
Glossary terms are highlighted with a grey
box
I can browse the entire glossary from here
The summary page
Review your learning on the summary page
Guided examples
Revise your knowledge using guided examples
Exercises
If you get stuck, there’s a hints page
Apply your knowledge with exercises
‘How we did it’ videos
Find out how the experts completed the task
Check your learning If you’re logged in you can do short quizzes to
check your learning
When you’ve completed a quiz, you get feedback on your
answers
Your quiz results are stored in your account page, so you can keep a record of progress
References
References are linked to journal articles through CiteXplore, the EBI’s
resource for the scientific literature
Learn more
Find out where you can expand your knowledge
further
Who wrote this course?
Find out who the course authors are
Learning pathways
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Introduction to a field
Quick tour of db1
Quick tour of db2
Db1 essentials
Db1 advanced Db1 advanced
Introduction to genomics resources at the EBI
Quick tour of Ensembl
Quick tour of Ensembl Genomes
Ensembl essentials
Variation with Ensembl
Comparative genomics with
Ensembl
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Courses as of Jan 2012GenomesEnsembl
(Ensembl Genomes EGA)
GenomesEnsembl
(Ensembl Genomes EGA)
Nucleotide sequenceENA
Nucleotide sequenceENA
Functional genomics
ArrayExpressExpression Atlas
Functional genomics
ArrayExpressExpression Atlas
Protein SequencesUniProt
Protein SequencesUniProt
Protein families, motifs and domains
InterPro
Protein families, motifs and domains
InterPro
Macromolecular structures
PDBe
Macromolecular structures
PDBeProtein activityIntAct , PRIDE
Protein activityIntAct , PRIDE
Chemical entitiesChEBI
Chemical entitiesChEBI
PathwaysReactome
PathwaysReactome
SystemsBioModels
BioSamples
SystemsBioModels
BioSamples
Literature and ontologies(CiteXplore,) GO
Literature and ontologies(CiteXplore,) GO
ChemogenomicsChEMBL
ChemogenomicsChEMBL
Intro or quick tour
Full-length ‘essentials’ course
Who develops Train online?
Webdevelopment
I’m here!
I’m here!
Come and see us at booth 302!
Thank you for listening!
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