Course content

To see details about the live ‘Managing a bioinformatics core facility’ course and the original programme, you can refer to the course page and programme.

The contents table below outlines the different sessions that were included in the course, as well as the format of the materials (slides/practicals) and each session’s trainer. Either proceed through the materials using the arrows at the end of each page or pick your topic of interest from the table below to skip straight to it.

Please be aware that the ‘Managing a bioinformatics core facility’ course is designed to be a knowledge-sharing workshop for the participants. We have endeavoured to include templates for you to replicate some of the sessions with your team, but some of the sessions cannot be reproduced as they contain details about the participants from the 2023 course. If you are interested in the full experience, you may be able to apply for the 2025 course here.

Presentation slides – View or download the slides

Recorded lectures – Watch the lecture videos

Practicals – View or download the slides, exercises, datasets, analysis scripts and results

Format	Subject	Trainer
	Introduction and initial reflections
	Introduction to EMBL-EBI resources	EMBL-EBI Team
	Keynote lecture– The evolving role of bioinformatics core facilities	Sarah Butcher
	Keynote lecture: Nurturing Competence in Bioinformatics	Shannan Ho Sui
	Spectrum exercise: strengths and limitations	Andrew Hercules
	Funding, financing and resourcing	Shannan Ho Sui
	The F words: funding and finances	Sarah Butcher
	Resourcing your service – practicals	Sarah Butcher, Adam Reid and Shannan Ho Sui
	Team building and employee engagement
	Team building and employee engagement
	(re)Designing Your Services
	(re)Designing your service: the design process, and understanding your users	Andrew He rcules
	Project management
	Project management	Urmi Trivedi
	Bioinformatics core facility performance and impact
	Performance and impact in the context of core facilities	Kim Gurwitz