COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT Please circulate this email to those who might be interested. ELIXIR-IIB, in collaboration with CINECA, is pleased to announce the upcoming training course on “Linux shell scripting for high-throughput biological data processing on supercomputers”. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for applications: 20 Dec 2017 Course date: 16-17 Jan 2018 A maximum of 20 candidates will be selected based on their need for the course as emerging from the application form. Notifications of acceptance will be sent shortly after the application until we reach 20 participants. Priority will be given to candidates from ELIXIR-IIB member institutions and ELIXIR nodes. The course does not include any fee, but the participants are expected to pay their own travel, meals and hotel costs. VENUE: CINECA, Via dei Tizii, 6B, 00185 Rome, Italy. Full details at: https://elixir-iib-training.github.io/website/2018/01/16/Linux-Shell-Roma.ht... COURSE DESCRIPTION: Biological big data increasingly require supercomputers for their processing and analysis. Running high-throughput (HTP) bioinformatics data pipelines on supercomputing machines requires advanced Linux shell command line and scripting skills. In this two-day course, we will introduce the Linux shell and, on day one, we will show how to navigate and work with files and directories, how to combine commands to do new things, how to perform the same actions on many different files, how to filter and selectively extract data from tables, and how to find objects in files. Moreover, we will show how to connect to a remote supercomputer and how to utilise a supercomputing environment to analyse big amount of biological data, run simple shell scripts and bioinformatics pipelines. Day 2 will be wholly practical. Should you have any question, do not hesitate to contact the ELIXIR-IIB Training Team (elixir.ita.training@gmail.com<mailto:elixir.ita.training@gmail.com>). Thank you for your interest, the Organisers Tiziana Castrignanò (CINECA, Rome, Italy) Allegra Via (ELIXIR-IIB Training Coordinator) Loredana Le Pera (ELIXIR-IIB Training Coordinator Deputy) [Image removed by sender. logo_iib.png] -- ELIXIR-IIB Training https://elixir-iib-training.github.io/website/