Pedro L. Fernandes will participate in the 4th forum at the Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, presenting BioData.pt services and running a group discussion about readiness to make research data FAIR.
The ELIXIR-PT/BioData.pt infrastructure and the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) are proud to announce that a Data Carpentry Workshop, with a special focus on Genomics data, will be held at the IGC on October 15th and 16th 2018. For those unfamiliar with the concept, Data Carpentry aims at systematically delivering workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. What you will learn will largely influence the way in which you handle data in a fully independent way, free from proprietary software and storage platforms.
Course Description
In an age of increasingly complex and data-intensive, collaborative scientific practices, scandals of irreproducibility, and a growing societal ethos of transparency and accountability, a new paradigm has arisen: Open Science. In this four day long course, we will introduce to you the three organizing principles and practices that undergird this paradigm:
