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<pre><span style="color:black">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color:black">I would like to send again the announcement of two ELIXIR training course taking place 13, 14th of May and 15th of May in Ghent.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><b><span style="color:black">Introduction to Reproducible Genomics: Data Carpentry <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre><span style="color:black">This is a Data Carpentry Workshop, with a special <b>focus on sequence handling for variant calling using the cloud resources, the workshop will introduce you to Genomic concepts and scripting</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color:black">Registration:<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color:black"><a href="https://training.vib.be/data-carpentry-genomics">https://training.vib.be/data-carpentry-genomics</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><b><span style="color:black">Best practises in Open Software<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
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<pre><span style="color:black">In recent years, scientific research has become more data driven and data intensive and it is no longer possible to carry out the analysis without the use of computers and research software. Unfortunately, software is not always developed following best practices that ensure its quality and sustainability. <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<p style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#1B2944"><a href="https://f1000research.com/articles/6-876/v1"><span style="color:#FF681E">Four simple recommendations to encourage best practices
in open research software</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black">is a publication that addresses this issue by providing a simple, yet robust framework of recommendations that encourage the adoption of existing
best practices in research software development.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><span style="color:black">Registration:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<pre><span style="color:black"><a href="https://training.vib.be/4-oss-best-practises-open-software">https://training.vib.be/4-oss-best-practises-open-software</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color:black">Trainers: Mateusz Kuzak, Toby Hodges<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color:black">Location: Ghent, training room in walking distance from Ghent Sint Pieters station<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color:black">Please feel free to spread further in your network if you see fit.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color:black">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color:black">Alex<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Alexander Botzki –
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Head of VIB Bioinformatics Core | Training Coordinator ELIXIR-BE</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Corbel",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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Rijvisschestraat 126, 9052 GENT, Belgium | +32 9 248 16 00<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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