About
GOBLET
The Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training
Empowering people, harnessing communities, networking networks

About
GOBLET
The Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training
Empowering people, harnessing communities, networking networks
Mission
To cultivate the global bioinformatics trainer community, set standards and provide high-quality resources to support learning, education and training.
Vision
To unite, inspire and equip bioinformatics trainers worldwide.
Our Story
Under the auspices of EMBnet, leaders of 10 International Societies, Networks
The working title for this meeting of Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Biocuration and Computational Biology Societies and Networks was B3CB.
The participants concluded that, as a natural evolution of the achievements of the Bioinformatics Training Network (BTN), a Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training (GOBLET) is needed to coordinate
- to share, not duplicate, effort;
- to share, not duplicate, cost;
- to work together in a mutually respectful way towards common solutions and a sustainable future.
The founders (EMBnet, ISCB, APBioNet, ASBCB, SoIBio, ISB, NBIC, SeqAhead, EBI, BTN) agreed to establish GOBLET as a legally registered foundation.
The first formal meeting of GOBLET members was hosted by BTN/NBIC, in the Netherlands, on 28 November 2012.
Since then, a variety of meetings have been held, for example
A presentation was also given at the NextGenBug meeting at the Roslin Institute, to introduce GOBLET to potential partners in Scotland.
Following the meeting, a Memorandum of Understanding was drawn up, which, having acquired its fifth signature, came into force on 6 July 2012. By 29 May 2013, the MoU had acquired twenty-nine signatures from twenty-six participating
A snap-shot of some of
Learn more about GOBLET from our brochure.
For a more comprehensive overview of our meetings, please take a look at the GOBLET Events page.
Ethos
Inclusivity: welcoming all relevant
Sharing: expertise, best practice, materials, tools, compute resources
Openness: using Creative Commons Licence
Innovation: welcoming imaginative ideas and approaches
Tolerance: transcending national, political, cultural and social boundaries)
Themes
The principal themes that GOBLET’s activities aim to address encompass:
Quality (of training, of training resources, of trainers)
Accreditation
Incentivisation (recognition)
Training methods
Outreach
Sustainability (funding)
Objectives
Objectives towards the vision and mission include:
for the training portal to become both a pull mechanism and repository;
to develop branded materials (e.g., Train-the-Trainer/Teacher packages);
to offer training for trainers/teachers and end users;
to continue work developing training material and course standards;
to provide training resources (surveys, best-practice guidelines, ice-breakers, technologies for classrooms, etc.);
to raise funds to be able to meet our objectives;
to offer a network/community forum; and
to give further consideration to mechanisms for trainer recognition.