<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black;background:white">COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT</span><span style="color:black"><br><span style="background:white"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Please, circulate this email to those who might be interested.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">ELIXIR Italy </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">(ELIXIR-IIB) </span><span style="color:black">is hosting the Software Carpentry </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">W</span><span style="color:black">orkshop </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">focused on </span><b><span style="color:black">"R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis"</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">,</span><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">for both Bioinformaticians and Biologists who want to learn how to manipulate, process data, and make plots using R</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black;background:white">The Carpentries is a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives. They teach skills that are immediately useful for researchers, using lessons and datasets that allow researchers to quickly apply what they’ve learned to their own work. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:white">We</span><span style="color:black;background:white">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:white">re</span><span style="color:black;background:white"> really excited about using the Software Carpentry curriculum here to help students</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:white"> and scientists of life sciences to </span><span style="color:black;background:white">become more efficient in their research.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black;background:white"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">IMPORTANT DATES</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">:</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">Deadline for applications: <b>1 </b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">July</span><span style="color:black"> 20</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">20</span></b><span style="color:black"><br>Course date: <b>1</b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">4</span><span style="color:black">-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">17</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">(morning) </span><span style="color:black">Jul</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">y</span><span style="color:black"> 20</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">20</span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">VENUE: online course.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">REGISTRATION:</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:white">Here is the registration link <a href="https://bit.ly/3epeNPN" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://bit.ly/3epeNPN</a>.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">The course is free of charge. <span style="background:white">Space is limited and it will likely fill quickly</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:white">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="color:black">A maximum of </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">15</span></b><b><span style="color:black"> candidates will be selected</span></b><span style="color:black"> based on their need for the course as emerging from the application form.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black;background:white"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:white">TARGET AUDIENCE:</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black;background:white">The target audience is learners who have little to no prior computational experience, and the instructors put a priority on creating a friendly </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:white">environment to empower researchers and enable data-driven discovery. Even those with some experience will benefit, as the goal is to teach not only how to do analyses, but how to manage the process to make it as automated and reproducible as possible. </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:white"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black;background:white">COURSE DESCRIPTION:<br></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black;background:white">The goal of this </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:white">workshop</span><span style="color:black;background:white"> is to teach novice programmers to write modular code and best practices for using R for data analysis. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:white">the </span><span style="color:black;background:white">emphasis of these materials is to give attendees a strong foundation in the fundamentals of R, and to teach best practices for scientific computing: breaking down analyses into modular units, task automation, and encapsulation.</span><span style="color:black;background:white"> </span><span style="color:black;background:white">Note that this workshop will focus on teaching the fundamentals of the programming language R, and will not teach statistical analysis.</span></p><p style="background:rgb(252,252,252);margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black;background:white">Full details at</span><span style="color:black;background:white"> the </span><span style="color:black;background:white"><a href="https://elixir-iib-training.github.io/website/2020/07/14/SWC_RforReproducibleScientificAnalysis-online.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">ELIXIR-IIB Training Platform webpage.</a></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black;background:white"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black;background:white">Should you have any question, do not hesitate to contact the ELIXIR-IIB</span><span style="color:black;background:white"> </span><span style="color:black;background:white">Training Team (<a href="mailto:elixir.ita.training@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">elixir.ita.training@gmail.com</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:white">) </span><span style="color:black;background:white">and/or </span><span style="color:black;background:white">Dr</span><span style="color:black;background:white"> <span lang="EN-US">Loredana Le Pera</span></span><span style="color:black;background:white"> (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:white"><a href="mailto:loredanalepera@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">loredanalepera@gmail.com</a>).</span><br></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black;background:white"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);box-sizing:border-box;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black;background:white"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background:rgb(252,252,252);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black;background:white"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Kind regards,</span></p><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Loredana Le Pera (ELIXIR-IIB Deputy Training Coordinator, IBIOM-CNR, IBPM-CNR, Italy)</span></font></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">on behalf of the ELIXIR-IIB Training Team</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">.</span></p><div><br></div><div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="times new roman, serif"><i>We apologise for cross-posting.</i></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><i><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Please, email us back with the word REMOVE as the subject line, if you don't want to receive </span><font face="times new roman,
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