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<span lang="EN-US">Dear colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Besides our work in research, many of us are also involved (in greater or lesser extent) in helping out / training / collaborating with our colleague researchers in the life sciences.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We are organising a one-day workshop on on 7 September 2014, as a satellite event of ECCB'14 in Strasbourg, France, entitled:</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">The</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <b>Dual Benefit of Bioinformatics Training – Empowering Life Scientists and freeing more time for your research</b></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The workshop will be a forum to hear from the bioinformaticians themselves about their experiences and perspectives in “helping” life scientists in their bioinformatics tasks, being asked to collaborate or do the actual analysis for projects.
How do they cope with this challenge (both time-wise and content-wise)?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Are there best approaches, methodologies and even further existing materials and efforts that we can use, share and expand to tackle several of these topics and challenges, some of which are probably shared across many Institutes and groups
worldwide?</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We invite you to share your experiences with us and encourage you to send in an abstract for a talk. <br>
We will be receiving abstracts for talk contributions until August 1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">You will find all the information about this workshop at: </span><a href="http://www.eccb14.org/program/workshops/dbbt" style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.eccb14.org/program/workshops/dbbt</span></a><span lang="EN-US">. <br>
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We are looking forward to meet several of you at the workshop and/or at ECCB!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Best regards</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Celia van Gelder (NL)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Also on behalf of:</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Patricia Palagi (CH)<br>
Vicky Schneider (UK)<br>
Michelle Brazas (CA)</span></div>
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