Weekly news 23.07.2018

Publications from Björn Grüning's team

• Bioconda: sustainable and comprehensive software distribution for the life sciences
• Practical Computational Reproducibility in the Life Sciences 
• Community-Driven Data Analysis Training for Biology

The NETTAB 2018 Workshop on Building a FAIR Bioinformatics environment will take place from 22-24 October 2018 in Genova, Italy. The tutorial is organised in collaboration with ELIXIR and the workshop/hackathon by ELIXIR Netherlands and ELIXIR Czech Republic. For more information, please visit the event website.

A research group of ELIXIR Spain is jointly organising a 5-day GATK Workshop on 17 September, 2018 in Seville, Spain. A tutorial on "Disease variant prioritisation tutorial" is to take place on 21 September, 2018. GATK workshops are designed to provide a comprehensive on-boarding experience to new users, as well as access to more advanced understanding for users who arealready familiar with the toolkit. More information is available on the event website.