GOBLET (organization)

Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training
Abbreviation GOBLET
Predecessor Bioinformatics Training Network
Formation 2012 (2012)
Type Nonprofit organization
Headquarters Radboud University
Location
Chair
 Terri Attwood
Key people
  • Vicky Schneider
    (Vice Chair)
  • Michelle Brazas
    (Secretary)
  • Fran Lewitter
    (Treasurer)
Website www.mygoblet.org

The Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training (GOBLET) is a nonprofit organization established in 2012 to help coordinate worldwide bioinformatics training activities.[1][2]

History

In 2009, the Bioinformatics Training Network (BTN) was founded as a result of a European Union FP7 project. BTN provided a community resource for bioinformatics educators, addressing issues such as reviewing the challenges particular to bioinformatics education and providing an online resource for sharing bioinformatics training materials.[3][4][5] In 2012, with BTN funding running out and an increased desire to extend the work of BTN beyond Europe, GOBLET was formed as a nonprofit foundation at the EMBnet annual meeting. The first GOBLET meeting was held at the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre in November.[6]

Activities

The GOBLET training portal was launched in 2014, providing open access (under a Creative Commons CC BY-SA license) bioinformatics training material and courses, as well as a searchable catalog of trainers. GOBLET is also collaborating with initiatives including ELIXIR in order to develop an ontology to standardize the portal's search tags and facilitate the distribution of training material.[7]

GOBLET has held a number of events worldwide, including an e-learning workshop in Slovenia,[8] a workshop on key aspects of a next-generation sequencing course in Sao Paolo, Brazil[9] and a workshop on best practices in bioinformatics training in Cape Town, South Africa in November 2015.[10]

In collaboration with the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), GOBLET is developing core competencies for different types of bioinformatics trainees; these competencies are being used in the development of new bioinformatics curricula.[11][12][13]

Member organizations

As of 2016, GOBLET has 30 affiliated organizations, including the ISCB, the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the University of Cambridge, the University of Melbourne and the Wellcome Genome Campus.[14] The ISCB is a founding member of GOBLET and worked with the foundation to create an education-specific poster track at its Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology conference in 2013.[15]

Executive board

GOBLET is run by the four members of the Executive Board, elected by the Full Board.[16] As of 2016, the Chair of the Executive Board is Terri Attwood, Professor of Bioinformatics in the School of Computer Science and Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Manchester. The other Executive Board members are Vicky Schneider (University of Melbourne and the Australia Bioinformatics Resource EMBL-ABR), Michelle Brazas (Ontario Institute for Cancer Research) and Fran Lewitter (Whitehead Institute).

References

  1. ↑ "GOBLET | Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education & Training". www.mygoblet.org. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "GOBLET | EMBnet". www.embnet.org. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  3. ↑ Atwood, Teresa K.; Bongcam-Rudloff, Erik; Brazas, Michelle E.; Corpas, Manuel; Gaudet, Pascale; Lewitter, Fran; Mulder, Nicola; Palagi, Patricia M.; Schneider, Maria Victoria; van Gelder, Celia W. G.; Welch, Lonnie (9 April 2015). "GOBLET: The Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training". PLOS Computational Biology. 11 (4): e1004143. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004143.
  4. ↑ Schneider, M. V.; Watson, J.; Attwood, T.; Rother, K.; Budd, A.; McDowall, J.; Via, A.; Fernandes, P.; Nyronen, T.; Blicher, T.; Jones, P.; Blatter, M.-C.; De Las Rivas, J.; Judge, D. P.; van der Gool, W.; Brooksbank, C. (18 June 2010). "Bioinformatics training: a review of challenges, actions and support requirements". Briefings in Bioinformatics. 11 (6): 544–551. doi:10.1093/bib/bbq021.
  5. ↑ Schneider, M. V.; Walter, P.; Blatter, M.-C.; Watson, J.; Brazas, M. D.; Rother, K.; Budd, A.; Via, A.; van Gelder, C. W. G.; Jacob, J.; Fernandes, P.; Nyronen, T. H.; De Las Rivas, J.; Blicher, T.; Jimenez, R. C.; Loveland, J.; McDowall, J.; Jones, P.; Vaughan, B. W.; Lopez, R.; Attwood, T. K.; Brooksbank, C. (22 November 2011). "Bioinformatics Training Network (BTN): a community resource for bioinformatics trainers". Briefings in Bioinformatics. 13 (3): 383–389. doi:10.1093/bib/bbr064.
  6. ↑ "BTN/GOBLET meeting | GOBLET". www.mygoblet.org. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  7. ↑ Corpas, M.; Jimenez, R. C.; Bongcam-Rudloff, E.; Budd, A.; Brazas, M. D.; Fernandes, P. L.; Gaeta, B.; van Gelder, C.; Korpelainen, E.; Lewitter, F.; McGrath, A.; MacLean, D.; Palagi, P. M.; Rother, K.; Taylor, J.; Via, A.; Watson, M.; Schneider, M. V.; Attwood, T. K. (4 September 2014). "The GOBLET training portal: a global repository of bioinformatics training materials, courses and trainers". Bioinformatics. 31 (1): 140–142. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu601.
  8. ↑ "ELIXIR - GOBLET workshop: defining an e-learning lingua franca < News < ELIXIR". www.elixir-europe.org. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  9. ↑ "Courses | Xmeeting 2015". x-meeting.com. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  10. ↑ "Bioinformatics training in Africa - EMBL". 17 December 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  11. ↑ Attwood, Teresa K.; Black, Pamela; Blatter, Marie-Claude; Brooksbank, Cath; Fernandes, Pedro; Mulder, Nicola; Palagi, Patricia M.; Rustici, Gabriella; Schneider, Maria Victoria; van Gelder, Celia W.G. (2016). "GOBLET's bioinformatics learning, education and training activities [v1; not peer reviewed]". F1000Research. 5(ISCB Comm J): 1944 (poster). doi:10.7490/f1000research.1112737.1. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  12. ↑ Welch, Lonnie; Lewitter, Fran; Schwartz, Russell; Brooksbank, Cath; Radivojac, Predrag; Gaeta, Bruno; Schneider, Maria Victoria (6 March 2014). "Bioinformatics Curriculum Guidelines: Toward a Definition of Core Competencies". PLoS Computational Biology. 10 (3): e1003496. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003496.
  13. ↑ Schiffthaler, Bastian; Kostadima, Myrto; Delhomme, Nicolas; Rustici, Gabriella; Ouellette, Francis (16 June 2016). "Training in High-Throughput Sequencing: Common Guidelines to Enable Material Sharing, Dissemination, and Reusability". PLOS Computational Biology. 12 (6): e1004937. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004937.
  14. ↑ "Affiliations | GOBLET". www.mygoblet.org. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  15. ↑ Lewitter, Fran. "ISCB Newsletter 17-2". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
  16. ↑ "Committees | GOBLET". www.mygoblet.org. Retrieved 24 August 2016.

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