Course overview

The primary goal of the Open Science for Synthesis: Gulf Research Program Workshop is to provide hands-on experience with contemporary open science tools from command line to data to communication. Team science is promoted. Practice and real data are used in groups to apply skills we explore.

Week 1. Fundamental collaboration skills
Introduction to command line, communicating science, R, meta-analysis and data management.

Week 2. Advanced topics
Tabular data, programming, Python, workflows, reproducible science and metagenomics.

Week 3. Advanced topics & group projects
Communication, geospatial analysis, data viz, and group project sharing.

All participants detail listed here.

Discussion on Slack OSS channel.

If you aren’t already a member of the Slack team, you need to invite yourself.