TY - JOUR
T1 - Experiences and lessons learned from two virtual, hands-on microbiome bioinformatics workshops
AU - Dillon, Matthew R.
AU - Bolyen, Evan
AU - Adamov, Anja
AU - Belk, Aeriel
AU - Borsom, Emily
AU - Burcham, Zachary
AU - Debelius, Justine W.
AU - Deel, Heather
AU - Emmons, Alex
AU - Estaki, Mehrbod
AU - Herman, Chloe
AU - Keefe, Christopher R.
AU - Morton, Jamie T.
AU - Oliveira, Renato R.M.
AU - Sanchez, Andrew
AU - Simard, Anthony
AU - Vázquez-Baeza, Yoshiki
AU - Ziemski, Michal
AU - Miwa, Hazuki E.
AU - Kerere, Terry A.
AU - Coote, Carline
AU - Bonneau, Richard
AU - Knight, Rob
AU - Oliveira, Guilherme
AU - Gopalasingam, Piraveen
AU - Kaehler, Benjamin D.
AU - Cope, Emily K.
AU - Metcalf, Jessica L.
AU - Robeson, Michael S.
AU - Bokulich, Nicholas A.
AU - Gregory Caporaso, J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright: © 2021 Dillon et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Computational Biology/education
KW - Feedback
KW - Humans
KW - Microbiota
KW - SARS-CoV-2
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009056
DO - 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009056
M3 - Article
C2 - 34166363
AN - SCOPUS:85108915350
SN - 1553-734X
VL - 17
JO - PLoS computational biology
JF - PLoS computational biology
IS - 6
M1 - e1009056
ER -