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Training in High-Throughput Sequencing: Common Guidelines to Enable Material Sharing, Dissemination, and Reusability.

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Peer-reviewed

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Authors

Schiffthaler, Bastian 
NGS Trainer Consortium 

Abstract

The advancement of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies and the rapid development of numerous analysis algorithms and pipelines in this field has resulted in an unprecedentedly high demand for training scientists in HTS data analysis. Embarking on developing new training materials is challenging for many reasons. Trainers often do not have prior experience in preparing or delivering such materials and struggle to keep them up to date. A repository of curated HTS training materials would support trainers in materials preparation, reduce the duplication of effort by increasing the usage of existing materials, and allow for the sharing of teaching experience among the HTS trainers' community. To achieve this, we have developed a strategy for materials' curation and dissemination. Standards for describing training materials have been proposed and applied to the curation of existing materials. A Git repository has been set up for sharing annotated materials that can now be reused, modified, or incorporated into new courses. This repository uses Git; hence, it is decentralized and self-managed by the community and can be forked/built-upon by all users. The repository is accessible at http://bioinformatics.upsc.se/htmr.

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This is the author accepted manuscript. It is currently under an indefinite embargo pending publication by the Public Library of Science.

Keywords

Algorithms, Computational Biology, Data Interpretation, Statistical, Education, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Humans, Teaching

Journal Title

PLoS Comput Biol

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Journal ISSN

1553-734X
1553-7358

Volume Title

12

Publisher

Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Sponsorship
COST action SeqAhead (BM1006)