Bio-IT Community Blog
This project aims to offer a platform for sharing ideas, resources, tools & techniques, interesting publications, interviews and stories from all our community members.
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Proposal Submission opens for the BioNT / CarpentryConnect 2024 at EMBL Heidelberg
Submit your session proposals for CarpentryConnect and BioNT Community Event - Heidelberg 2024! The CarpentryConnect and BioNT community event - Heidelberg 2024 is expected to be the key community-building and networking event for The Carpentries and BioNT’s community in Europe, with worldwide participation. Taking place 12 - 14 November 2024 at EMBL Heidelberg, this event will provide the opportunity to bring together newer and more experienced community members to share knowledge, network, develop new skills, and develop strategies for training beyond academia and building strong local and regional training communities.
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CarpentryConnect at EMBL in 2024!
Announcing a community event in EMBL Heidelberg, 12-14 November 2024.
Join us for CarpentryConnect Heidelberg 2024 at EMBL! More information at: carpentries.org/blog/2024/01/announcing-cchd24
Bio-IT welcomes you to a community event, that we are co-organising with the project BioNT and The Carpentries.
We will talk about and act on how to connect people through training across sectors (Academia and Industry, as well as job seekers), how to enhance the impact of training activities, and how to increase diversity within our training communities.
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Connecting to GitLab using SSH
When interacting with GitLab at EMBL using git, two protocols are available, HTTPS and SSH.
The first is convenient for a quick interaction. However, it quickly gets annoying as it will ask for your credentials every time. A more convenient and versatile option is SSH but it requires going through a few steps to configure it.
If incorrectly configured, you will likely see the error message: Permission denied (public key). fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
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How to announce and manage a training course in the Bio-IT website
The Bio-IT website includes courses announcements not only from Bio-IT, but from various EMBL entities including the EMBL centers and ALMF. Would you also like to know how to announce a course and manage the related registrations and communication through our website? Here’s a short overview for you!
Upcoming courses in the Bio-IT website The page available at bio-it.embl.de/upcoming-courses includes two lists. The Upcoming courses on top shows courses planned with a date and time, while you can consider the Training plan on the bottom our wishlist of courses we are planning or would like to organise in the future.
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Where to find us on the EMBL chat
Ever since it’s launch in 2017, EMBL’s Bio-IT chat has been steadily growing in all directions, expanding the range of topics discussed, the number of daily active users and different functionalities, some fun, some productive.
Since around this time last year, the chat has grown to have:
over 1600 users of which 410 are active on a monthly basis 700 channels split between 120 public and 580 private 1.5 million posts, which is to say, half million exchanged messages since last year a little over 820 board cards, thanks to the adoption of the new Task Management Boards feature introduced last year With such fast growth and many places to visit, it is normal to find yourself a little lost.
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The Bio-IT training Catalogue
We want you(r training requests)! New year, new resolutions. It has always been central in the Bio-IT’s mission to plan and deliver a curriculum of training courses designed on the needs and wishes of the (biocomputational) community at EMBL. From this year, we have a tool to collect them in a systematic way: the Bio-IT training catalogue.
The platform was initiated, and developed to an advanced state, from Bio-IT’s summer intern Emily Simons, who joined us through the DAAD RISE project.
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Join us for an EMBL trivia pub quiz round
Hello hello everyone!
This time around we come to you with different kind of announcement.
Thanks to efforts from Federico Marotta, and contributions from Sarah Schulz, we now have a Trivia channel where you can have a little fun and test your scientific and general knowledge.
Currently, there will be a trivia session every Thursday at 17:00, but if you are eager to test your knowledge, you are also welcome to issue a trivia start request at any time and a new trivia round will be started for you.
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File size limits on git.embl.de and promoting Git LFS
Over the years we have been promoting Git LFS at git.embl.de. With the move to an S3 backed storage, LFS is now the supported way to store large files in our platform.
New limit on git push In order to enforce the use of LFS over plain git for large files, as of 2022-09-15 we now reject pushes larger than 100Mb.
Introducing git LFS Git LFS is a solution to store large files in Git in a more efficient manner.
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The Bio Network for Training (BioNT)
Visit the official BioNT website: biont-training.eu
Short term training courses, DIGITAL Europe The DIGITAL Europe Programme call DIGITAL-2022-TRAINING-02-SHORT-COURSES aims at increasing the training offer in digital skills of people in the workforce and job-seekers, through free and open short-term courses. Bio-IT, leading a consortium of 9 institutions in 4 countries, applied to the call with a project for the computational training of people in the Life Sciences sector. The project got funded and will start its activities in early 2023.