By Stephen Eglen, senior lecturer in Computational Biology at the University of Cambridge and 2014 Institute Fellow.
I first heard about the Software Sustainability Institute in 2013, when Laurent Gatto and I were planning an R programming bootcamp.
I have long been a believer in the open sharing of software, and so I was glad to read about many of the complementary issues that the Institute has promoted, both within the UK and worldwide. Another thing that convinced me to apply was that a respected colleague in the R community, Barry Rowlingson, was also a Fellow…
By Stephen Eglen, senior lecturer in Computational Biology at the University of Cambridge and 2014 Institute Fellow.
I first heard about the Software Sustainability Institute in 2013, when Laurent Gatto and I were planning an R programming bootcamp.
I have long been a believer in the open sharing of software, and so I was glad to read about many of the complementary issues that the Institute has promoted, both within the UK and worldwide. Another thing that convinced me to apply was that a respected colleague in the R community, Barry Rowlingson, was also a Fellow…
By Aleksandra Pawlik, Training leader.
The University of Warwick hosted its first Software Carpentry bootcamp this month. The bootcamp was organised by GARNet which is a UK-based research network for the UK Arabidopsis community (a plant which is for botanists what the fruit fly is for biologists). GARNet facilitates collaboration and interaction between different researchers and supports skills development.
The bootcamp was open to all researchers from the domain and many of the 32 participants came from outside of Warwick. By far the furthest to travel was Christina Koch…