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In May 2013, the announcement of funding guidelines for a German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (de.NBI) was published by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The aim of this announcement was to establish an infrastructure in Germany that will provide solutions to the ‘Big Data Problem’ in life science by means of bioinformatics services and training. A second announcement of funding guidelines for de.NBI partner projects was published in November 2015. The de.NBI program was launched by the BMBF in March 2015, and the partner projects started their work in November 2016.<ref name="autogenerated2" /> In addition, the [[ELIXIR]] Node in Germany (ELIXIR-DE) is run by de.NBI partners since August 2016.<ref>[https://www.elixir-europe.org/news/elixir-board-meeting-2016-spring-session ELIXIR Board Meeting Spring 2016]</ref><ref>[https://www.elixir-europe.org/news/germany-joins-elixir Germany joins ELIXIR]</ref><ref>[https://www.elixir-europe.org/about-us/who-we-are/nodes/germany. ELIXIR Germany]</ref>

The first coordinator of the de.NBI project is [[Alfred Pühler]]. The head of the German ELIXIR Node is Andreas Tauch.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=de.NBI Quarterly Newsletter 2/20|url=https://www.denbi.de/images/Downloads/Newsletter/quarterly_newsletter_20.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-06-15|website=de.NBI}}</ref>.

== Organisation ==

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=== de.NBI Summer Schools===

Next to the training courses de.NBI offers an annual Summer School to cover a distinct topic in more detail. The first Summer School was held in 2015 by the Service Centers Bielefeld-Gießen (BiGi) Center for Microbial Bioinformatics, RBC and de.NBI-SysBio and was focused in the workflow from genome assembly to genome and transcriptome analysis.<ref>[https://www.denbi.de/training-archive-sorted-according-by-date/2015/142-de-nbi-late-summer-school-2015 de.NBI Summer School 2015]</ref> In the following years the Summer Schools were organized by the Service Centers BioInfraProt, CIBI and BiGi as well as BioData, GCBN and de.NBI-SysBio and held at different locations throughout Germany. The Summer Schools covered the topics proteomics and mass spectrometry data (2016),<ref>[https://www.denbi.de/training-archive-sorted-according-by-date/2016/180-de-nbi-summer-school-2016-from-big-data-to-big-insights de.NBI Summer School 2016]</ref>, Computational genomics and RNA biology (2017),<ref>[https://www.denbi.de/training-archive-sorted-according-by-date/2017/242-de-nbi-late-summer-school-2017-computational-genomics-and-rna-biology de.NBI Summer School 2017]</ref>, Research Data Management (2018)<ref>[https://www.denbi.de/training-archive-sorted-according-by-date/2018/122-de-nbi-summer-school-2018-riding-the-data-life-cycle de.NBI Summer School 2018]</ref> and (Bio)Data Science (2019).<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>. The de.NBI Summer School 2020 will be organized by BiGi and cover the topic of metagenomics.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.denbi.de/training/735-de-nbi-summer-school-2020-metagenomics|title=de.NBI Summer School 2020 - Metagenomics|last=|first=|date=|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=March 3, 2020}}</ref>

===Additional de.NBI Schools ===

In addition, de.NBI organized the first cloud summer school in June 2017<ref>[https://www.denbi.de/training-archive-sorted-according-by-date/2017/219-de-nbi-summer-school-on-cloud-computing-for-bioinformatics de.NBI Cloud Summer School 2017]</ref> and supported a winter school on metabolics in March 2018.<ref>[https://www.denbi.de/training-archive-sorted-according-by-date/2018/87-de-nbi-winter-school-on-computational-metabolomics de.NBI Winter School 2018]</ref>. For pupils interested in bioinformatics, the BioBYTE summer school at the University of Halle, also supported by de.NBI, offers an ideal opportunity to get to know the diversity of bioinformatics.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://biobyte.uni-halle.de/|title=Sommerschule für neugierige Schülerinnen und Schüler, die die Naturwissenschaft der Zukunft entdecken möchten.|last=|first=|date=|website=|language=de|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=March 3, 2020}}</ref>.

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