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*Heidelberg Center for Human Bioinformatics (HD-HuB)

**Members: The [[German Cancer Research Center]] (DKFZ, research groups Eils/Russel, Schlesner, Boutros), [[European Molecular Biology Laboratory]] (EMBL, research groups Bork, Huber, Korbel), [[Heidelberg University]] (research groups Eils/Rohr, Erfle/Reymann) and [[Saarland University]],

**Topic: Human Bioinformatics, e.g. [[Exome]], [[Genomics]], [[Transcriptomics]], [[Metagenomics]], [[Phenotyping]], [[Bioimaging]], [[Epigenetics]] and [[Cloud Computing]]

**Associated Partner: Division of Computational Genomics and System Genetics (Dr. Oliver Stegle, DKFZ)

*Bielefeld-Gießen Resource Center for Microbial Bioinformatics (BiGi):

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=== Hardware ===

de.NBI develops and maintains a cloud system (de.NBI cloud) started in 2016<ref>[https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg.2017.113 Cloud computing for genomic data analysis and collaboration by Ben Langmead & Abhinav Nellore, 2018]</ref>. It is a collaboration project between the universities of Bielefeld, Freiburg, Gießen, Heidelberg and Tübingen. The whole system is accessible through a single sign-on (SSO) via the central de.NBI Cloud Portal and is based on the ELIXIR Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (ELIXIR AAI). It comprises more than 15,000 compute cores and 5 PB of storage capacity (Statusin April 2018. During 2018, the storage capacity was increased to 38 PB (Status February 2019).

== Training ==

Different types of training activities are supported and organized by de.NBI. First of all, the summer schools provide training courses for undergraduate and [[graduate students]] in specific topics related to one or several de.NBI centers. The respective centers organize tool-specific training. These trainings are attached to existing conferences or organized independently. In addition, online training was introduced on the de.NBI website in 2016. In 2017, online [[hackathons]] for different software packages and [[webinars]] have been established by the centers RBC and CIBI.

In 2015, 17 training courses with 329 participants were organized by de.NBI. In 2016, the network has organized 40 training courses with 882 participants. For 2017, the network could further increase the number of courses and participants (69 training courses with 1489 participants). In 2018, the de.NBI training program reached the plateau phase with 77 training courses and 1520 participants.

=== de.NBI Summer Schools===

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*September 2016: The second de.NBI summer school was organized by BioInfraProt, CIBI and BiGi at Dagstuhl and focused on proteomics and the analysis of mass spectrometry data<ref>[http://www.denbi.de/events/206-de-nbi-summer-school-2016-from-big-data-to-big-insights de.NBI Summer School 2016]</ref>.

*September 2017: The third de.NBI summer school was organized by all RBC partners. It focused on “Computational genomics and RNA biology”<ref>[http://www.denbi.de/events/331-lss2017 de.NBI Summer School 2017]</ref>.

*September 2018: AThe fourth summer school will bewas organized on "Riding the Data Life Cycle" by BioData, GCBN and de.NBI-SysBio<ref>[http://www.denbi.de/events/534-lss2018 de.NBI Summer School 2018]</ref>.

*September 2019: The fifth summer school will be organized by the service centers GCBN, BioData, de.NBI-SysBio and BioInfra.Prot. The topic will be "(Bio)Data Science" and it will take place in Gatersleben <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.denbi.de/training/528-de-nbi-summer-school-2019-bio-data-science|title=de.NBI Summer School 2019 - (Bio)Data Science|website=www.denbi.de|access-date=2019-01-24}}</ref>

===Additional de.NBI Schools ===