The Coop: Bioinformatics & Data Science Cooperative
Our Focus
Our goal is to make data-intensive research accessible to everyone at Fred Hutch through community building, training, and access to experts. The Coop is a cooperative that includes all groups and individuals at Fred Hutch interested in bioinformatics and data science. The problems we are trying to solve include duplication of effort, wasted resources including time and money, lack of shared knowledge and best practices, and lost collaboration opportunities.
The Coop Goals
- Act as a single source of information about resources and activities surrounding data-intensive science at the Hutch
- Build community to share knowledge and skills
- Enable skills development through training (fredhutch.io) and events
- Facilitate connections to increase capacity for data-intensive research
- Assess needs and advise on programs to meet the data-intensive needs of the Hutch research community
Efforts
Training & Talks
Communication and planning for fredhutch.io and other training efforts will be routed through The Coop to ensure maximum value for researchers. These opportunities may include courses and workshops, hackathons, informal learning sessions, and seminar series. For a full list of events, visit the Coop Calendar.
Communities
The Coop aims to foster peer-to-peer learning through Hosted Meeting Groups, office hours, and workshops. We also support communication via Slack for bioinformatics, data science, and software development communities. There you can find and participate in peer-to-peer Q&A's, see notices of current events in and outside the Fred Hutch, and spin up theme-based working groups. To join the conversation and find your Coop Community, join us on Slack.
Space
The Coop has dedicated space for informal meetings, trainings, and other events called the Coop Lab. It's located in the Arnold Building on the Hutch campus, M1-B406. Read more.
Documentation
One avenue intended to reduce barriers and duplication of effort is the ongoing curation of the Biomedical Data Science Wiki
by members of the community. We collaborate with the leaders of this
project to help the resource grow and expand to include documentation of
available resources, best practices and community guidance. More
information about contributing or participating in the Wiki
Writer-Editor Program can be found on the Wiki, or for questions and comments, contact Amy Paguirigan.
Communication & Administration
The Coop coordinates and communicates across campus about data-intensive research. For information sharing, we have a quarterly newsletter to distribute announcements and information about events, trainings, and seminars. Sign up for the newsletter by emailing coophelp@fredhutch.org or visit the Newsletter page for archives.
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