There are multiple ways your team can get started with these seminars. Each requires you to reflect on your current needs and practices and discuss them to find shared interests.
Category: Experience
A fundamental aspect of bioinformatics software development involves integrating functionalities from various software packages, which refer to collections of code that perform specific tasks. Given the large number of dependencies and the entire ecosystem of tools involved in scientific software development, managing these dependencies is crucial for ensuring the reproducibility of findings.
To improve software quality in our groups and raise shared standards, we have organized weekly meetings where one group member presented a chosen topic to the rest of us.
Our team comprises members with different backgrounds and from several academic research groups. The learning goals are defined based on the software tasks our team performs.