In addition to researchers of UD, numerous representatives of the Hungarian science life and the bioinformatics community were also present at the event on Wednesday, where training programmes of the European Bioinformatics Network (ELIXIR) were presented.
- In the framework of the European open scientific initiatives numerous sets of educational and research tools have become available for free. Experts of the international organisation presented how the newest online tools can be explored and used in a rapid and efficient manner – said László Bálint, assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology to hirek.unideb.hu.
The Hungarian educational coordinator of ELIXIR mentioned the significant changes that had taken place in the field of science in the recent decade. A large body of biological data has been collected, for example on sequencing human genomes. In terms of data storage, compared to the expensive solutions applied earlier the use of various pieces of software developed by researchers themselves should be regarded as a milestone.
- Data should be available, accessible, and suitable for re-processing and re-use. These are the four basic principles of today's researchers, but how they can organise their own data is also of key importance. Today there are various items and types of community software that help the work of researchers around the world in a coordinated fashion – said the assistant professor.
Besides data and data analysis tools, data analysis descriptions are also shared by researchers. The workshop was preceded by an intensive 2-day course, where experts of the European Bioinformatics Institute talked about how researchers involved in university education can improve their teaching skills, in order to transfer their knowledge to students more efficiently.
In connection with the educational programmes a scholarship programme will soon be launched at UD. The objective of the programme, which was designed mainly for PhD students, will be to improve the competitiveness of students and help them better understand the tools of open science, in order to raise their scientific skills to a European level.
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