Welcome

Hello everyone, 

We are delighted to welcome you to the CABANA ‘Managing a bioinformatics core facility’ virtual course. Our Course Organisers have been working on a programme that will bring together bioinformatics core facility managers from Latin America, from EMBL-EBI’s service teams, from each other, and from potential users of your services.

The program has been designed to provide a mixture of live-streamed sessions, pre-recorded lectures, and practicals with live support from trainers.  We hope that it will provide a positive learning experience for you and your peers, including networking opportunities via our Slack workspace.

In this handbook, you will find all the information about the course as well as the resources that we will be using to run the course. While the course will be running mainly on Zoom, we will have other communication platforms such as Slack and Google Docs to enhance our scientific and social interactions. This handbook will keep evolving as the course progresses; we will add course materials, session recordings, presentation slides, etc, so do keep an eye on this.

A virtual course, much like a face-to-face course, requires a significant time commitment from participants as well as trainers. Make use of the time you have with us during the course this week to build networks, make new friends and importantly learn from and contribute in your own capacity to the course.

We look forward to seeing you all virtually soon!

Course organisers.