Experiences and lessons learned from two virtual, hands-on microbiome bioinformatics workshops.
Journal
PLoS computational biology
ISSN: 1553-7358
Titre abrégé: PLoS Comput Biol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101238922
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 2021
06 2021
Historique:
entrez:
24
6
2021
pubmed:
25
6
2021
medline:
10
7
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
In October of 2020, in response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, our team hosted our first fully online workshop teaching the QIIME 2 microbiome bioinformatics platform. We had 75 enrolled participants who joined from at least 25 different countries on 6 continents, and we had 22 instructors on 4 continents. In the 5-day workshop, participants worked hands-on with a cloud-based shared compute cluster that we deployed for this course. The event was well received, and participants provided feedback and suggestions in a postworkshop questionnaire. In January of 2021, we followed this workshop with a second fully online workshop, incorporating lessons from the first. Here, we present details on the technology and protocols that we used to run these workshops, focusing on the first workshop and then introducing changes made for the second workshop. We discuss what worked well, what didn't work well, and what we plan to do differently in future workshops.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34166363
doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009056
pii: PCOMPBIOL-D-21-00571
pmc: PMC8224931
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e1009056Subventions
Organisme : NCI NIH HHS
ID : U24 CA248454
Pays : United States
Organisme : NCI NIH HHS
ID : U54 CA143925
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIH HHS
ID : 1U24CA248454-01
Pays : United States
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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