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A guide to organising data associated to a publication using BioStudies A webinar covering processes of data retrieval and submission to BioStudies. Data sharing Webinar EMBL-EBI
An Introduction to Accessing NCBI Resources on the Command Line using EDirect for Biologists A workshop teaching biological researchers how to use the command line to search and fetch NCBI data, focusing on creating bash commands to download and organize files and constructing search queries with the EDirect toolkit Data collection, data reuse Workshop NCBI
An Introduction to NCBI Cloud Computing for Biologists A workshop covering how to use AWS services like Athena to mine metadata from the NCBI SRA database for dataset selection, perform sequence alignment analysis with MagicBlast, and visualize aligned data in the NCBI Genome Data Viewer browser application. Data collection, Data reuse, Data analysis, Genomics Workshop NCBI
An NCBI Guide to Finding and Analyzing Metagenomic Data A workshop covering how to search and retrieve and perform analysis on metagenomic sequencing data from NCBI Data analysis, Data reuse, Metagenomics Workshop NCBI
ArrayExpress in BioStudies A tutorial introducing ArrayExpress and describing Annotare tool and MAGE-TAB spreadsheet method for data submission. Data sharing Online tutorial EMBL-EBI
BioSamples Quick tour A tutorial introducing the BioSamples database and the concept of a biosample. It also provides website navigation tips, and directs users to more information on accessing and downloading data from BioSamples. Data sharing Online tutorial EMBL-EBI
Bringing data to life, Data management for the biomolecular sciences A tutorial encompassing concepts of data management e.g. the data management cycle, data management tools (DMPonline and Data stewardship wizard), FAIRness vs Openness, benefits/challenges of data sharing, and ontologies/standards (e.g. The Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) and The Experimental Factor Ontology (EFO)) to be used to describe/annotate data. Online tutorial EMBL-EBI
Data publishing and archival These slides focus on topics such as discipline-specific repositories, generalist repositories, the FAIRDOM platform, and reproducible models in FAIRDOM. Data planning, Genomics Slides ELIXIR Luxembourg
Describing data consistently What metadata is and why it is important to keep track of this information in biological experiments. Data planning, Data sharing Short Video EMBL-EBI
Functional Genomics - Submitting data A tutorial covering the importance of data submission, metadata templates like MIAME and MINSEQE, submission timelines, and submission locations for functional genomics data (e.g. ArrayExpress and GEO). It also discusses secondary databases like Expression Atlas. Data sharing, Genomics Online tutorial EMBL-EBI
Getting Started with NCBI Data in Python A workshop demonstrating effective use of python programming, BioPython package and Jupyter notebooks to facilitate download, analysis and visualisation of data in a reproducible fashion. Data collection, Data reuse, Data analysis Workshop NCBI
Introduction to exploring genome-phenome data with EGA A webinar offering an overview of EGA, discussing its controlled access data, the process for gaining access through the Data Access Committee, the use of DUO ontology for tagging data, and a live demo of pyEGA3 for downloading permitted data. Data planning, Genomics Webinar EMBL-EBI
Metabolights - Quick Tour A tutorial offering an introduction to Metabolights, a summary of data submission and retrieval processes, along with additional support resources. Data sharing, Metabolomics Online tutorial EMBL-EBI
MetaboLights: the home for metabolomics experiments and derived information A webinar introducing MetaboLights, metabolomics, and the Metabolomics Standards Initiative (MSI), demonstrating how to navigate the MetaboLights site to explore study information and providing a brief overview of study submission. Data sharing, Metabolomics Webinar EMBL-EBI
MGnify portal - Submitting metagenomics data to the European Nucleotide Archive A tutorial with a detailed walkthrough for submitting metagenomics data to ENA for analysis by MGnify, highlighting metadata standardization, the use of templates like GSC MIxS for contextual information, and submission methods through ENA or the MGnify browser Data sharing, Metagenomics Online tutorial EMBL-EBI
Nucleotide sequencing data submission and retrieval at the ENA A webinar introducing the background of the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA), data and metadata models, submission and retrieval processes, submission methods, and tools for data download. Data collection, Data reuse, Data sharing Webinar EMBL-EBI
Open access: Data sharing and submission A webinar with discussion regarding importance of sharing research data and infrastructure available at EMBL-EBI to support sharing. It also describes data submission process to IntAct and ComplexPortal. Data sharing Webinar EMBL-EBI
Open with purpose: How and why to make your data open A webinar about open access data, examples of making BioSamples submissions FAIR, open data at IntAct database and how PMC Europe is promoting open access publicationg Data planning Webinar EMBL-EBI
PRIDE - Quick tour A tutorial with an overview of PRoteomics IDEntification (PRIDE) database, how to search and download datasets from PRIDE and an introduction of PRIDE tools: Proteome Xchange Submission Tool and PRIDE Inspector (to assess the quality of a dataset). Proteomics, Data sharing Online tutorial EMBL-EBI
PRIDE database: Proteomics data submission, access and visualisation A webinar covering proteomics data submission process including a demo for Proteome Xchange Submission Tool. Data sharing, Proteomics Webinar EMBL-EBI
Submitting metagenomic data to ENA A webinar with an introduction of ENA, INSDC agreement, the ENA data and metadata model, how to structure a metagenomic study and submit metagenomics data to ENA. Data sharing, Metagenomics Webinar EMBL-EBI
Submitting your genome wide association study data to the GWAS Catalog A webinar offering a detailed guide on submitting data to the GWAS Catalog, including user account setup, data format conversion, metadata provision, and validation using a command-line tool, with an emphasis on explaining metadata columns. Data sharing Webinar EMBL-EBI
Tips on managing and sharing data Basic tips on managing and sharing data to maximise its re-use in the future. Data planning Guide EMBL-EBI
Understanding Proteomes A webinar with an introduction to the proteomes and how to find and download relevant protein datasets. It also includes a UniProt demonstration to find proteomic data with user queries. Data collection, Data reuse, Proteomics Webinar EMBL-EBI
Using Publicly available data A tutorial about publicly available data and importance of licenses to make the data open. Topics covered include data formats, controlled vocabularies, ontologies, reporting guidelines, minimum reporting checklists and importance of unique identifiers for data artefacts. Data collection, data reuse Online tutorial EMBL-EBI
Variant submission and data access at the European Variation Archive A webinar providing an overview of the European Variation Archive (EVA) and its integration with other EBI resources, a live demo of the EVA interface for accessing data via web, FTP, or API, and clarification on using SS and RS IDs for variant access/reference. Data sharing, Data reuse Webinar EMBL-EBI