The Turing Way Workshop: Reproducible, Open and FAIR Research

Overview

In this part-1 of the workshop we covered the following topics:

• Reproducible Research
• Open Science
• FAIR principles
• Setting project repository
• README files (basic information about the project) on GitHub

You can find the presentation on Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/record/6337939), shared under CC-BY 4.0 License for reuse and share. Please cite them as: Sharan, Malvika, & Karoune, Emma. (2022, March 8). The Turing Way Workshop: Reproducible, Open and FAIR Research. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6337939

Several slides in this presentation uses The Turing Way and Open Life Science contents shared under CC-BY 4.0 License.

Assignments before the next session:

• Create a project repository in GitHub (see details here: https://hackmd.io/QPDHWmcSTVGPd4Z_VbwHTA#Pre-requisite)
• Add top-level files: README.md
  • Use The Turing Way chapter for README to guide your assignment
    https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/project-design/project-repo/project-repo-readme.html
  • README file is used to communicate about your work, use this template to get started: https://ha0ye.github.io/CW21-README-tips/template_README.html
• Also try to add a  LICENSE.md: OPTIONAL (we will cover this detail in the session 2)
  • This is to allow others to use, modify, build upon your work - we will cover this in the next session in more details.

Learning objectives

• Problem: Scientific errors have real world effect
• Define what reproducible research is
• Understand what open science practices are
• Identify FAIR principles for your research
• Differentiate between FAIR and open data/research
• Learn how to implement a reproducible workflow

Shared notes

This workshop uses a shared document, you can see/reuse the template provided here: https://hackmd.io/@turingway/B1fgLlB-5/edit

 

What to expect in session 2

• Brief overview of what license to choose for your research objects
• Group activities to understand reproducible workflow (you don’t need to know how to code, but it will be an added advantage)
• Deploy GitHub repository on BinderHub.
  • Binder allows users to share reproducible interactive computing environments from code repositories.
  • This is useful to share your codes for testing