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Experiences and lessons learned from two virtual, hands-on microbiome bioinformatics workshops.

ABSTRACT: 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.

SUBMITTER: Dillon MR

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8224931 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Experiences and lessons learned from two virtual, hands-on microbiome bioinformatics workshops.

Dillon Matthew R MR Bolyen Evan E Adamov Anja A Belk Aeriel A Borsom Emily E Burcham Zachary Z Debelius Justine W JW Deel Heather H Emmons Alex A Estaki Mehrbod M Herman Chloe C Keefe Christopher R CR Morton Jamie T JT Oliveira Renato R M RRM Sanchez Andrew A Simard Anthony A Vázquez-Baeza Yoshiki Y Ziemski Michal M Miwa Hazuki E HE Kerere Terry A TA Coote Carline C Bonneau Richard R Knight Rob R Oliveira Guilherme G Gopalasingam Piraveen P Kaehler Benjamin D BD Cope Emily K EK Metcalf Jessica L JL Robeson Ii Michael S MS Bokulich Nicholas A NA Caporaso J Gregory JG

PLoS computational biology 20210624 6

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 participa ...[more]

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Experiences and lessons learned from two virtual, hands-on microbiome bioinformatics workshops.

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