The 'Managing a bioinformatics core facility' course ran in October 2024. The course focused on he role of core bioinformatics facilities, designing and resourcing your service, as well as giving an introduction to project management. Here you can find the course materials available for you to access any time.

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Using these materials

These course materials provide a mixture of pre-recorded lectures, presentations and practicals to help advance your knowledge and skills in the analysis of biological data. You may select your topic of interest from the Course content page to view the relevant materials or work your way through all the course materials.

To find out more about the trainers who created these materials, follow the links from the Course content page or go directly to the Trainer biographies page. You can also find the software requirements for the practicals in the Technical help sheet.

In the Further learning section you may explore the details about the EMBL-EBI’s free access online tutorials and webinars on a variety of life sciences topics.

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Learning outcomes

After the course you should be able to:

• Identify the strengths and limitations of your core facility
• Apply a framework for designing new services (including training your users) or redesigning existing services
• Appreciate different cost models, their pros and cons, and how to apply them in the context of your core facility
• Identify existing strategies and approaches to demonstrate the performance and impact of a core facility, the principles impact pathway logic and impact framework design, and gain appreciation for the range of evidence of performance and impact

Material collection editors

• Vladimir Benes, EMBL Heidelberg
• Sarah Butcher, EMBL-EBI
• Patricia Carvajal Lopez, EMBL-EBI
• Phil East, The Francis Crick Institute

DOI: 10.6019/TOL.CoreFacilitiesMaterials-t.2022.00001.1