Partner communities

Various communities related to the BioNT project

The Carpentries

The Carpentries is community teaching foundational coding and data science skills worldwide, through the activity of more than 3700 instructors (in 2023). The scale of the initiative is supported by a structured system including a very applied approach to learning, collaborative lessons development, certification and acknowledgment of instructors and other types of contributors, etc. All the training providers in the BioNT consortium are involved in The Carpentries activity. Several aspects of the BioNT project are inspired to the community.
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Galaxy Training Network

The Galaxy Training Network provides online training materials, connections to local training communities, and promotes open data analysis through the Galaxy tool. Galaxy is a scientific workflow, data integration, and data and analysis persistence and publishing platform that aims to make computational biology accessible. The University of Freiburg hosts the Freiburg Galaxy Team, and EMBL, ZB MED and UO partake in the network.
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ELIXIR Europe

ELIXIR, the ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research and Innovation) Research infrastructure for life science data, unites Europe’s leading life science organizations and all BioNT’s proponents in managing and safeguarding the increasing volume of data being generated by publicly funded research. It coordinates, integrates and sustains bioinformatics resources across its member states and enables users in academia and industry to access services that are vital for their research.
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