BioNT

BIONT – BIO Network for Training – is an international consortium of academic entities and SMEs with the aim to provide a high-quality training program and community for digital skills relevant to the biotechnology industry and biomedical sector.

Project is running from 2023-2026.

The basic curriculum of the program aims at employees or job seekers with limited prior experience in handling, processing and visualizing biological data and/or the usage of computational biology tools.

The advanced curriculum is targeted at Data Stewards, System Administrators, and other professionals who hold leading roles in the management and deployment of computational resources at their workplaces. It is building upon the strong expertise in digital literacy training of its members as well as on its wide network of collaborations and other initiatives aimed at professionalizing Life Sciences data management, processing and analysis skills.

Standardization and state- of-the-art technological implementation will reinforce the training and outreach activities plan.

The program builds on short dedicated remote workshops as well as training recordings and will generate specific training material as Open Educational Resources which will be made available in a dedicated web platform.

The consortium structure and high connectivity to relevant networks will foster project sustainability and efficient knowledge delivery to the stakeholders throughout the entire duration of the project and beyond, all this under a well defined and transparent management system.

University of Freiburg is participating in BioNT through the BioInformatics group Freiburg and its Freiburg Galaxy Team.

We are responsible for delivering training in BioNT, like “A practical introduction to bioinformatics and RNA-seq using Galaxy” and “From Zero to Hero with Python”. Moreover, we provide consultancy on the Galaxy Training network and the Galaxy Team helps shape the report concerning language-specific communities, the selection of workshops’ participants, coordination with the Carpentries and project ambassador recruitment and communication.

Coordinator contact:

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL
Meyerhofstr. 1, 69126 Heidelberg, Germany
contact@biont-training.eu

List of participants:

Full list of partners and their direct contacts you can find on the BioNT website

• European Molecular Biology Laboratory
• ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences
• École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
• University of Barcelona
• Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• University of Oslo
• biobyte solutions
• RIcapacity
• HPCNow!

Previous partners: Simula consulting

Project results:

BioNT has developed multiple training courses on digital skills (see list below). Materials for the courses and information about each course can be found on the BIONT Website

• System administration for HPC
• Applied Machine Learning for Biological Data
• Awareness in Data Management and Analysis for Industry and Research
• Code & Collaborate: The FAIRytale of Software Development
• An introduction to High Performance Computing
• From Zero to Hero with Python
• A practical introduction to bioinformatics and RNA-seq using Galaxy
• Strategies for training and knowledge exchange with a consulting perspective

Funding:

This project is co-funded by the EU Digital Europe program, grant agreement number 101100604.

Disclaimer: Views and opinions expressed on this page are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Health and Digital Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Members

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Contributions

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Tutorials

• Using Galaxy and Managing your Data / Use Jupyter notebooks in Galaxy 💵
• Foundations of Data Science / One protein along the UniProt page 💵
• Foundations of Data Science / Learning about one gene across biological resources and formats 💵

Slides

• Foundations of Data Science / Bioinformatics Data Types and Databases 💵

Learning Pathways

• From Zero To Hero with Python 💵

Events

• A practical introduction to bioinformatics and RNA-seq using Galaxy 💵
• From zero to hero with Python 💵
• BioNT Community Event & CarpentryConnect - Heidelberg 2024 💵
• An introduction to High Performance Computing 💵
• Code & Collaborate: The FAIRytale of Software Development 💵
• Awareness in Data Management and Analysis for Industry and Research 💵
• Galaxy Training Academy 2025 💵
• Galaxy Training Academy 2024 💵

External Links

Website: https://biont-training.eu/

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