WEBINAR: AlphaFold: what's in it for me?
This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons webinar ‘WEBINAR: AlphaFold: what’s in it for me?’. This webinar took place on 18 April 2023.
Event description
AlphaFold has taken the scientific world by storm with the ability to accurately predict the...
Keywords: Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, Structural Biology, Proteins, Drug discovery, AlphaFold, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Deep learning
WEBINAR: AlphaFold: what's in it for me?
https://zenodo.org/records/7865494
https://dresa.org.au/materials/webinar-alphafold-what-s-in-it-for-me-4d1ea222-4240-4b68-b9ae-7769ac664ee0
This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons webinar ‘WEBINAR: AlphaFold: what’s in it for me?’. This webinar took place on 18 April 2023.
Event description
AlphaFold has taken the scientific world by storm with the ability to accurately predict the structure of any protein in minutes using artificial intelligence (AI). From drug discovery to enzymes that degrade plastics, this promises to speed up and fundamentally change the way that protein structures are used in biological research.
Beyond the hype, what does this mean for structural biology as a field (and as a career)?
Dr Craig Morton, Drug Discovery Lead at the CSIRO, is an early adopter of AlphaFold and has decades of expertise in protein structure / function, protein modelling, protein – ligand interactions and computational small molecule drug discovery, with particular interest in anti-infective agents for the treatment of bacterial and viral diseases.
Craig joins this webinar to share his perspective on the implications of AlphaFold for science and structural biology. He will give an overview of how AlphaFold works, ways to access AlphaFold, and some examples of how it can be used for protein structure/function analysis.
Materials are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International agreement unless otherwise specified and were current at the time of the event.
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A recording of this webinar is available on the Australian BioCommons YouTube Channel:
https://youtu.be/4ytn2_AiH8s
Melissa Burke (melissa@biocommons.org.au)
Morton, Craig (orcid: 0000-0001-5452-5193)
Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, Structural Biology, Proteins, Drug discovery, AlphaFold, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Deep learning
NCI training strategy and impact story to address pressing needs from user community
This presentation looks at how NCI provides training opportunities, supporting users to develop their digital skills with the aim of underpinning the integrity of research. NCI's new training strategy is outlined along with how training is evaluated and impact is measured. Through extensive...
Keywords: training impact, evaluation, skills training, training strategy, community, survey design, training material
NCI training strategy and impact story to address pressing needs from user community
https://zenodo.org/records/5739725
https://dresa.org.au/materials/nci-training-strategy-and-impact-story-to-address-pressing-needs-from-user-community-70a328d3-a1e1-45ce-bac0-d8b896db4ca0
This presentation looks at how NCI provides training opportunities, supporting users to develop their digital skills with the aim of underpinning the integrity of research. NCI's new training strategy is outlined along with how training is evaluated and impact is measured. Through extensive internal polling the training team have identified a number of gaps. Based on the gaps an end-to-end learning journey has been created. The presentation also provides an overview of immediate, middle term and community impacts of training at NCI.
You can watch the video on YouTube here:https://youtu.be/LVn5TZFufjI
contact@ardc.edu.au
Wang, Jingbo (orcid: 0000-0002-3594-1893)
training impact, evaluation, skills training, training strategy, community, survey design, training material
Accelerating skills development in Data science and AI at scale
At the Monash Data Science and AI platform, we believe that upskilling our research community and building a workforce with data science skills are key to accelerating the application of data science in research. To achieve this, we create and leverage new and existing training capabilities...
Keywords: AI, machine learning, eresearch skills, training, train the trainer, volunteer instructors, training partnerships, training material
Accelerating skills development in Data science and AI at scale
https://zenodo.org/records/4287746
https://dresa.org.au/materials/accelerating-skills-development-in-data-science-and-ai-at-scale-2d8a65fa-f96e-44ad-a026-cfae3f38d128
At the Monash Data Science and AI platform, we believe that upskilling our research community and building a workforce with data science skills are key to accelerating the application of data science in research. To achieve this, we create and leverage new and existing training capabilities within and outside Monash University. In this talk, we will discuss the principles and purpose of establishing collaborative models to accelerate skills development at scale. We will talk about our approach to identifying gaps in the existing skills and training available in data science, key areas of interest as identified by the research community and various sources of training available in the marketplace. We will provide insights into the collaborations we currently have and intend to develop in the future within the university and also nationally.
The talk will also cover our approach as outlined below
• Combined survey of gaps in skills and trainings for Data science and AI
• Provide seats to partners
• Share associate instructors/helpers/volunteers
• Develop combined training materials
• Publish a repository of open source trainings
• Train the trainer activities
• Establish a network of volunteers to deliver trainings at their local regions
Industry plays a significant role in making some invaluable training available to the research community either through self learning platforms like AWS Machine Learning University or Instructor led courses like NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute. We will discuss how we leverage our partnerships with Industry to bring these trainings to our research community.
Finally, we will discuss how we map our training to the ARDC skills roadmap and how the ARDC platforms project “Environments to accelerate Machine Learning based Discovery” has enabled collaboration between Monash University and University of Queensland to develop and deliver training together.
contact@ardc.edu.au
Tang, Titus
AI, machine learning, eresearch skills, training, train the trainer, volunteer instructors, training partnerships, training material
Professionalizing Training - Origin Stories for the Modern Researcher
Keynote Presentation for the ARDC Skills Summit 2023
This keynote presentation provides a brief outline of Jason William’s experience and an overview of the training initiatives he has been involved in. His presentation looks at what makes a good researcher and provokes thinking about modern...
Keywords: research, training, skills, superheroes, formal, career, change, workshops, milestones, community, principles, bicycle principles, professionalizing, training material
Professionalizing Training - Origin Stories for the Modern Researcher
https://zenodo.org/records/7710785
https://dresa.org.au/materials/professionalizing-training-origin-stories-for-the-modern-researcher-0198d9cf-9d8f-467e-8031-4d3a3536af63
Keynote Presentation for the ARDC Skills Summit 2023
This keynote presentation provides a brief outline of Jason William’s experience and an overview of the training initiatives he has been involved in. His presentation looks at what makes a good researcher and provokes thinking about modern researchers and the need for them to get serious bout career-spanning training. Jason also provides an overview of the Bike Principles and focuses on the first Bike Principles recommendation - Professionalize the training of short-format training instructors and instructional designers.
contact@ardc.edu.au
Williams, Jason (orcid: 0000-0003-3049-2010)
research, training, skills, superheroes, formal, career, change, workshops, milestones, community, principles, bicycle principles, professionalizing, training material
ARDC Skills Landscape
The Australian Research Data Commons is driving transformational change in the research data ecosystem, enabling researchers to conduct world class data-intensive research. One interconnected component of this ecosystem is skills development/uplift, which is critical to the Commons and its...
Keywords: skills, data skills, eresearch skills, community, skilled workforce, FAIR, research data management, data stewardship, data governance, data use, data generation, training material
ARDC Skills Landscape
https://zenodo.org/records/4287743
https://dresa.org.au/materials/ardc-skills-landscape-56b224ca-9e30-4771-8615-d028c7be86a6
The Australian Research Data Commons is driving transformational change in the research data ecosystem, enabling researchers to conduct world class data-intensive research. One interconnected component of this ecosystem is skills development/uplift, which is critical to the Commons and its purpose of providing Australian researchers with a competitive advantage through data.
In this presentation, Kathryn Unsworth introduces the ARDC Skills Landscape. The Landscape is a first step in developing a national skills framework to enable a coordinated and cohesive approach to skills development across the Australian eResearch sector. It is also a first step towards helping to analyse current approaches in data training to identify:
- Siloed skills initiatives, and finding ways to build partnerships and improve collaboration
- Skills deficits, and working to address the gaps in data skills
- Areas of skills development for investment by skills stakeholders like universities, research organisations, skills and training service providers, ARDC, etc.
contact@ardc.edu.au
Unsworth, Kathryn (orcid: 0000-0002-5407-9987)
skills, data skills, eresearch skills, community, skilled workforce, FAIR, research data management, data stewardship, data governance, data use, data generation, training material
Monash University - University of Queensland training partnership in Data science and AI
We describe the peer network exchange for training that has been recently created via an ARDC funded partnership between Monash University and Universities of Queensland under the umbrella of the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF). As part of a training program in machine learning,...
Keywords: data skills, training partnerships, data science, AI, training material
Monash University - University of Queensland training partnership in Data science and AI
https://zenodo.org/records/4287864
https://dresa.org.au/materials/monash-university-university-of-queensland-training-partnership-in-data-science-and-ai-8082bf73-d20f-4214-ad8c-95123e25a36c
We describe the peer network exchange for training that has been recently created via an ARDC funded partnership between Monash University and Universities of Queensland under the umbrella of the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF). As part of a training program in machine learning, visualisation, and computing tools, we have established a series of over 20 workshops over the year where either Monash or QCIF hosts the event for some 20-40 of their researchers and students, while some 5 places are offered to participants from the other institution. In the longer term we aim to share material developed at one institution and have trainers present it at the other. In this talk we will describe the many benefits we have found to this approach including access to a wider range of expertise in several rapidly developing fields, upskilling of trainers, faster identification of emerging training needs, and peer learning for trainers.
contact@ardc.edu.au
Tang, Titus
data skills, training partnerships, data science, AI, training material
Coding and Software Club at the Burnet Institute: a Sisyphean story of normalising peer-to-peer learning
This presentation outlines the Burnet Institute and its Coding and Software Club. What motivated the establishment of the Club and what keeps it going, the tools used to engage, teach and learn and finally, how the Club has impacted people at various levels of the organisation. Also explored are...
Keywords: coding, software, training impact, culture change, community, skills training, training material
Coding and Software Club at the Burnet Institute: a Sisyphean story of normalising peer-to-peer learning
https://zenodo.org/records/5739771
https://dresa.org.au/materials/coding-and-software-club-at-the-burnet-institute-a-sisyphean-story-of-normalising-peer-to-peer-learning-665e90f8-6fd5-49e7-9476-e16b6ffe17c6
This presentation outlines the Burnet Institute and its Coding and Software Club. What motivated the establishment of the Club and what keeps it going, the tools used to engage, teach and learn and finally, how the Club has impacted people at various levels of the organisation. Also explored are the challenges, opportunities and lessons learnt - valuable insights into what it tkaes to keep a community focused and enduring.
You can watch the video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/c2syM1Dfqbo
contact@ardc.edu.au
Wilkinson, Anna (orcid: 0000-0002-4475-5224)
coding, software, training impact, culture change, community, skills training, training material
The Living Book of Digital Skills
The Living Book of Digital Skills (You never knew you needed until now) is a living, open source online guide to 'modern not-quite-technical computer skills' for researchers and the broader academic community.
A collaboration between Australia's Academic Research Network (AARNet) and the...
Keywords: digital skills, digital dexterity, community, open source
Resource type: guide
The Living Book of Digital Skills
https://aarnet.gitbook.io/digital-skills-gitbook-1/
https://dresa.org.au/materials/the-living-book-of-digital-skills
*The Living Book of Digital Skills (You never knew you needed until now)* is a living, open source online guide to 'modern not-quite-technical computer skills' for researchers and the broader academic community.
A collaboration between Australia's Academic Research Network (AARNet) and the Council of Australian Librarians (CAUL), this book is the creation of the CAUL Digital Dexterity Champions and their communities.
**Contributing to the Digital Skills GitBook**
The Digital Skills GitBook is an open source project and like many projects on GitHub we welcome your contributions.
If you have knowledge or expertise on one of our [requested topics](https://aarnet.gitbook.io/digital-skills-gitbook-1/requested-articles), we would love you to write an article for the book. Please let us know what you'd like to write about via our [contributor form](https://github.com/AARNet/Digital-Skills-GitBook/issues/new?assignees=sarasrking&labels=contributors&template=contributor-form.yml&title=Contributor+form%3A+).
There are other ways to contribute too. For example, you might:
* have a great idea for a new topic to be included in one of our chapters (make a new page)
* notice some information that’s out-of-date or that could be explained better (edit a page)
* come across something in the GitBook that’s not working as it should be (submit an issue)
Sara King - sara.king@aarnet.edu.au
Sara King
Miah de Francesch
Emma Chapman
Katie Mills
Ruth Cameron
digital skills, digital dexterity, community, open source
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masters
mbr
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