FONDA – Foundations of Workflows for Large-Scale Scientific Data Analysis
DFG Collaborative Research Center 1404 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
From September 10-12, FONDA’s doctoral researchers met at Coconat space for a self-organized retreat. The group shared tools they use to keep their research organized and worked on abstracts for potential collaborations between subprojects, ideas for potential master’s thesis topics, and other ideas for FONDA
The Integrated Research Training Group (IRTG) has been very active in the past month providing courses and workshops for FONDA’s doctoral researchers. On April 28th and 29th Seqera, the company which supports the open source workflow engine “Nextflow” provided a tutorial using Nextflow to write and evaluate bioinformatics workflows. On May 7th, the IRTG members participated in a training course in Good Scientific Practice, especially geared towards computational sciences.
Future courses include a tutorial on GitLab with scientists from the German Aerospace Center on May 20th and 21st, a course on gender bias awareness on June 17, along with courses on workflow simulator WfCommons, and python-based workflow execution engine “Snakemake”.