Das Open Science Radio ist ein unregelmäßig erscheinender Podcast von Matthias Fromm, der sich mit dem Thema Open Science in seinen vielseitigen und -schichtigen Aspekten beschäftigt – von Open Access über Citizen Science und Open Data bis hin zu Öffentlicher Wissenschaft und Open Education. Dieser Podcast soll ein grundlegendes Verständnis schaffen, vor allem aber auch über aktuelle Entwicklungen informieren. Dieses Angebot ist kostenlos.
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OSR168 COVID-19 Biohackathon [EN]
With the current situation around the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are several initiatives pushing forward to help finding solutions to successfully fight the virus. The global bioinformatics community is pushing its own efforts and organized the virtual COVID-19 Biohackathon. Starting today, contributors are invited to virtually work together on multiple topics and share their results openly via Github. "The goal of COVID-19-BH20 is to create a cohesive effort and work on tooling for COVID-19 analysis. The biohackathon will lead to more readily accessible data, protocols, detection kits, protein predictions etc. We will also push for policy change where it comes to non-public or hard to access data because we are facing such challenges!" Konrad had the chance to talk to one of the organizers, Leyla Jael Garcia-Castro, about the idea and implementation of this endeavor. Enjoy!