New handbook to improve FAIRness and sustainability of bioinformatics training materials

Trainers can now make their training material easier to find and reuse, thanks to a new FAIR training handbook released by the ELIXIR FAIR training focus group. This process is globally recognised as essential for ensuring bioinformatics and data science training is effective and inclusive.

The comprehensive handbook gives trainers and training coordinators simple, step-by-step guidance and practical examples on improving the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability (FAIRness) of training materials. It serves as a reference to learn about general best-practices or to quickly look up specific how-tos.

The handbook is the culmination of a large collaborative effort across international data science and bioinformatics training communities. Dr Melissa Burke, BioCommons’ Training and Communications Officer, is a member of the focus group and co-lead of several sections of the handbook. She is also a co-author of the publication on which this guide is based. BioCommons is proud to have enabled additional contributions from the Australian community including Kathryn Unsworth (Manager, Skilled Workforce Development, ARDC), Dr Anastasios Papaioannou (Data Science Manager, Intersect), and Steven Morgan (Academic Specialist - Bioinformatics, Melbourne Bioinformatics) through their participation in the 2022 Biohackathon Europe. 

Read the handbook to find out how to make your training materials FAIR and enable their reuse.
Find out more about how the BioCommons’ makes training materials FAIR.